student union building, Student Central.
The university has won its campus the award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development' in The Times Higher Education Awards two years running.
In 2021, university campus buildings underwent a £3.5 million facelift, working on improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions. Upgrades to the campus were performed on the Richmond Building and Horton Building. Additionally, in 2022 the university was donated £2 million by former Intel CTO and Bradford alumni, Dr. Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala, to develop the "Murthy-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI" and announced plans to launch a prototype PocketQube satellite by 2024.
=== JB Priestley Library ===
The JB Priestley Library is open 24 hours, 360 days a year. It has 530,000 volumes, more than 1,100 printed periodical titles and approximately 60,000 electronic journals.
The library itself was opened on 18 October 1975 by J.B. Priestley - who the library is named after - as well as the then university chancellor Harold Wilson. At the time, the library boasted an impressive computer centre, occupying a whole floor out of the five available library floors. The library was then expanded further in the 1990s.
== Organisation and governance ==
=== Chancellor ===
Harold Wilson (1966–85) (served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976; later became the Lord Wilson of Rievaulx)
John Harvey-Jones (1986–91)
Trevor Holdsworth (1992–98)
Baroness Lockwood (1998–2005)
Imran Khan (2005–2014) (prime minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022)
Kate Swann (2015–2022)
Anita Rani (2023–Present)
The current chancellor is Bradford-born television and radio presenter Anita Rani.
=== Vice-chancellor ===
E. G. Edwards (1966–78)
John West (1978–89)
David Johns (1989–98)
Colin Bell (1998–2001)
Chris Taylor (2001–07)
Mark Cleary (2007–13)
Brian Cantor (2013–2019)
Shirley Congdon
The first vice-chancellor was Dr E.G. Edwards, who as principal of the Bradford Institute of Technology …
