Durham University has won the coveted Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology for the development of a clean and scalable alternative for production of graphene - the "miracle" substance of nanotechnology Two Durham University students have been recognised for organising a mass peace campaign in Northern Ireland by becoming the first ever recipients of national peace awards presented by David Ford, Justice Minister, Northern Ireland The at the heart of the City of Durham has been a leading centre of scholarship for over 1000 years, while our cosmopolitan Queen's Campus in Stockton is at the leading edge of Teesside's transition from an industrial to a knowledge economy