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What do a rubbish-collecting recommissioned milk float, ¡°magnetricity¡± and the bombardier beetle have in common? They have all played a part in helping academics and their universities triumph in the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.

If proof were ever needed of the imagination, innovation and sheer diversity of UK higher education¡¯s output, it¡¯s here. From a scheme training researchers to become leaders and managers to a nonchemical process for removing arsenic from groundwater, the ideas and initiatives keep on coming.

In the roll call of academic excellence, special mention must go to the University of York, which takes the coveted top accolade. Its powerful mix of academic excellence, scientific discovery and social inclusion earns it the title of University of the Year 2010.

We congratulate each of our very deserving winners and salute all 107 shortlisted candidates.

Ann Mroz
Editor
Times Higher Education

THE Awards 2010 winners

• University of the Year
  University of York
• Entrepreneurial University of the Year
  University of Hertfordshire
• Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
  Tony Mann
  University of Greenwich
• Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
  Cardiff University
• Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year
  Queen¡¯s University Belfast
• Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology
  University of Leeds
• Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development
  University of Bradford
• International Collaboration of the Year
  University of Central Lancashire
• Research Project of the Year
  University College London
• Most Improved Student Experience
  University of Sunderland
• Outstanding Support for Students
  Birmingham City University and Birmingham City Students¡¯ Union
• Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers
  Universities Scotland Research Training Sub-Committee
• Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year
  University of Bristol
• Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative
  North West Universities Association
• Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
  Southampton Solent University
• Widening Participation Initiative of the Year
  The Open University and Unison Partnership
• Excellence and Innovation in the Arts
  University of Manchester
• Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement
  Professor Cary Cooper