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Dance
students Rachel Partridge, Elizabeth Collier
and graduate Jonny Hate may appear to be rehearsing
alone in a Bretton studio, but they are actually
working with twenty other dancers from seven
European countries, preparing for a final
performance in Dublin this month. It’s
all done through the internet, and they will
have just five days from first meeting face
to face until their live performance.
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| Log
on to lose it – the weight-loss website |
| The
first professional, unbiased and fully monitored
weight-loss website is to go on trial across
Leeds. |
| Wrap-around
blanket helps keep the beat |
| Researchers
at Leeds are developing an ultrasonic blanket,
to help weak hearts carry on beating. |
| Lies,
damned lies and Labour party websites |
| The
Labour Party has been systematically manipulating
statistics to show that things are 'getting
better'. |
| Children
to 'wotchit' |
| From
January, overweight children, teenagers and
their families will have help through new obesity
clinics. |
| Enterprise
and education – something to get your teeth
into |
| Leeds
spin-off Telsol Ltd was among over 40 exhibitors
at a successful enterprise networking event
|
| Soaking
up carbon |
| Leeds
is coordinating an international collaboration
to improve research on the Amazon rainforests. |
| Serving
students or selling newspapers – the rights,
wrongs and future of University league tables |
| When
newspapers compile league tables, are they performing
a public service to students and their parents,
or damaging the reputation and fabric of higher
education? |
| Computing
on the overground |
| Computer
scientist Professor Roger Boyle is on a mission
to prove how computer science shapes our everyday
lives. |
| Don't
burn the chips |
| Researchers
at Leeds and Reading have discovered how ordinary
foods come to contain a carcinogen and nerve
poison. |
| Teaching
medics to have open minds |
| A
ground-breaking programme helping student medics
explore their attitudes and prejudices has won
an award for medical communication. |
| Getting
the right moves online |
| Dance
students Rachel Partridge and Elizabeth Collier
and graduate Jonny Hate may appear to rehearse
alone, but they are working through the internet
with twenty other dancers across Europe. |
| New
dean appointed |
| Professor
Roger Pollard has been appointed dean of the
faculty of engineering, the first under new
proposals for reforming the University's structure. |
