News in brief

• Celebrating diversity
  The University is proud to be a multi-cultural community, values diversity and is committed to a wide-ranging plan of action to tackle discrimination and promote diversity.
• Politics of hospitality
  Novelist, poet and 1988 Prix Goncourt winner Tahar Ben Jelloun is addressing CentreCATH's first congress from June 21-23.
  
• Accolade for LUBS
  Leeds University Business School has been awarded the 'EQUIS' accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development.
• Digital medievalists
  The world's leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages is now available online.
• Leeds to Romania
  Equipment from geography labs in Leeds is on its way to an intensive care unit in Romania.
• World cup fortunes
  An early World Cup exit for England would knock 25 points or more off the FTSE 100, according to historical evidence analysed by Leeds researchers.
• Pass go, collect £200
  The University has created its own version of the Monopoly board game, featuring landmarks from the city and campus.
• Cleaning with clay
  Leeds researchers will be cleaning up with clay, in a collaboration with the University of Tsinghua in Beijing.
• Inside the old school
  The Old Medical School will be one of 70 Leeds buildings open to the public on Sept 14 and 15.
• Leeds: the new Bayeux
  The Leeds Millennium tapestry has gone on public view for the first time at Harewood House.
• Adoption leave policy
  All University staff adopting children under 18 are now entitled to time off under the University's new adoption leave policy.
• Not for everyone
  The £125 funding for non-job-related courses – listed on the last issue's events sheet – is only available to certain staff.
• Commonwealth artist
  Leeds graduate and lecturer in creative writing Rommi Smith has been appointed the BBC's artist-in-residence for this summer's Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
• Welsh transformation
  Transforming a disused industrial site in North Wales into a sports leisure centre was the winning idea of final-year mining engineering student James Percy-Hughes.
• Celebrating 100 years
  Celebration planning for the University centenary in 2004 is under way.
• Technician to fellow
  A former technician has won a prestigious research fellowship grant to carry out post-doctoral research.
• Brawn meets brain for charity walk
  Staff and students from civil engineering tested their muscles on Woodhouse Moor last week, practising for a charity walk on June 15.