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Dr
Eric
Condliffe won third prize in the ‘science
as art’ section of the Visions of Science
photography competition for his picture of
quartz and anhydrite crystals, dredged from
the floor of the Bismark Sea east of Papua
New Guinea during an ocean drilling expedition
and brought back to Leeds by Dr Liane Benning.
The image was taken on a scanning electron
microscope.
The competition was supported by the Daily
Telegraph and Novartis.
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| Success
for University's 'sound' research |
| University
researchers have seen their 'sound' ideas win
important successes this summer. |
| Face
lift brings a smile for phantom heads |
| The
best dental training facilities in the country
await students starting a new academic year
at the school of dentistry. |
| New
designs |
| It's
all new for the start of the academic year,
with a Reporter redesign, a new Reporter
website ad a revamp of the external
website with the latest news stories and
pictures now on the home page. |
| Fellow
funding |
| Details
on the latest grant opportunities for fellowships
from the AHRB and the Leverhulme Trust. |
| Garden
restoration is a question of plumbing |
| Restoration
of the UK's largest formal garden to its original
splendour is all a question of plumbing, according
to geography lecturer Dr Joseph Holden. |
| Leading
the field in a virtual environment |
| A
free software system developed at the University
has beaten its commercial competitors to become
the University of Oxford's new virtual learning
environment. |
| Lasers,
gold and atomic forces as physics helps our
understanding of diseases |
| Studying
the early stages of Alzheimer's or heart disease
is not research you'd expect to find in a physics
laboratory. |
| Researchers
set gold standard for male fertility |
| Researchers
in Leeds and the USA have developed a 'gold
standard' for fertile sperm, in a major step
forward towards understanding male fertility. |
| Where
scientists fear to tread |
| Volcanologists
need to get close to active volcanoes to collect
vital information on impending eruptions, but
in doing so they can put their lives at risk. |
| Taking
'time out' to find peace through performance |
| A
play to help war-torn communities in the former
Yugoslavia heal their rifts has been brought
from Bosnia to the UK by performing arts research
fellow Dr Jim Mirrione. |
| Majority
support for low cost road charging |
| Over
50% of people in Leeds would be in favour of
road charging, if the cost was kept under £3
a day and if the scheme brought substantial
environmental improvements, as study at the
Institute for Transport Studies has shown. |
| News
extra |
| So
much has been happening over the summer, we
couldn't fit everything in the printed version. |
