Graduation is ‘write’ time for Sahima’s success
Sahima Begum, who studied her BA (Hon) English Language and Literature degree, picked up this year’s Blackwell’s Prize for Most…
Penman writes a new future
Shelby Penman has been awarded the Blackwell’s Prize for Most Outstanding English Literature student for her continued performance and highest…
Graduation first for language prize
The first ever language prize awarded to an outstanding student has been unveiled at this year’s graduation ceremony Each year,…
Pioneering woman Bishop honoured
The University of Sunderland has honoured one of the country’s leading clerics – who has her roots firmly in the…
Magnificent seven step out into the world
The University of Sunderland has been celebrating some of its outstanding young graduates in business, accounting and law, as seven…
Honour for arts guru
The man is tasked with bringing creativity to life in the UK – and who has a particular love for…
(Working) life is a rollercoaster
There can be few student graduating university this summer who can claim that their dreams have literally come true –…
Parents face double trans-Atlantic trip as sisters keep it in the family
Parents Sanjay and Neupam Girdhar travelled more than 5,000 miles to see their daughter graduate – and they face doing…
Royal Pharmaceutical Society prize for first class Jamaican student
“I was living a simple life in a small community, but had big ambitions to become a pharmacist, now I’m…
“Today is the day I never thought I’d see”
Fighting for her life, when Linzi Saunders was lying in a hospital bed, she could never have imagined this day.…
“They don’t know what they’re missing out on”
On her graduation day, University of Sunderland student Bethany Harrod is putting herself firmly in the driver’s seat as she…
An award-winning first
Michael Calder’s journey to achieve his degree at Sunderland has ended in award-winning success, but he admits it nearly didn’t…