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The University of Manchester has been created by bringing together The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST, two of Britain's most distinguished universities, to create a powerful new force in British Higher Education.

The new merged University has been established with an unprecedented £300m investment programme. With some of the highest quality teaching and research and the broadest spread of academic subjects, we will be able to compete with the best universities in the world. The new institution is expected to be the largest single-site university in the UK, offering students a greater choice of degree programmes and options, and even better facilities and student support services.

The University of Manchester has its origins in Owens College, which was established in 1851 in Richard Cobden's house on Quay Street, Manchester. John Owens (1780 - 1846) was a Manchester textile merchant who left a bequest of £96,942 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines.

The College moved to the first buildings on the present site on Oxford Road in 1873. The buildings around the Quadrangle, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, were completed in 1902.

The College was granted a Royal Charter in April 1880 as the Victoria University, a federal institution which established colleges in Leeds and Liverpool. These Colleges were granted their independence in 1903 becoming the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool respectively, and creating the Victoria University of Manchester.

The Faculties of Commerce and Theology were instituted in 1903 and added to those of Arts, Science, Law, Medicine and Music. The Faculty of Education was added in 1914. The Manchester Business School constitutes the Faculty of Business Administration and was established in 1965. The School of Biological Sciences was created in 1986

The University of Manchester has two complementary organisations which facilitate relationships with the Funding Councils and Industry and handle the commercial exploitation of the results of research: The Research and Graduate Support Unit, which inter alia provides advice and support to academic staff on research funding, and negotiates and manages research contracts and: Manchester Innovation Ltd, the University's technology development and exploitation company. It is responsible for the protection of intellectual property rights, licensing and the transfer of technology, including the establishment and management of spin-off companies.

University of Manchester makes made-to-measure skin and bones a reality using inkjet printers
19 January 2005 - University of Manchester
Made-to-measure skin and bones, which could be used to treat burn victims or patients who have suffered severe disfigurements, may soon be a reality using inkjets which can print human cells.
Two-dimensional fabric may lead to single molecule computers
31 October 2004 - University of Manchester
Researchers at The University of Manchester and Chernogolovka, Russia have discovered the world's first single-atom-thick fabric, which reveals the existence of a new class of materials and may lead to computers made from a single molecule.