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University
of Leeds scientists are witnessing evolution
in action and the birth of a new species
on the rocky shores of North Yorkshire |
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| 'Sublime'
recital marks Leeds centenary |
| Leeds’
Lord Mayor, staff and students past and present,
members of the Clothworkers’ Foundation
and music enthusiasts from across the region
heard Murray Perahia’s Centenary Concert
recital |
| Raising
the game in knowledge transfer |
| Leeds
has won £2.5m for knowledge transfer
activities after a successful bid to the second
round of the Higher Education Innovation Fund |
| Promiscuous
fruit flies go under the microscope |
| Female
fruit flies sleep around. Nobody knows exactly
why, but Nina Wedell of the school of biology
aims to find out |
| Shocking
domestic violence figures revealed |
| Domestic
violence was suffered by around 867,000 people
in 15.4 million incidents over one year –
five times more than official figures previously
indicated, according to a report commissioned
by the Home Office from Leeds sociologist Sylvia
Walby |
| Sir
Alan's lap of honour |
| Retiring
Vice-Chancellor Sir Alan Wilson is to receive
three honorary degrees from local universities
in the space of just nine days – Bradford
on July 14, Leeds the following day, and Leeds
Metropolitan on July 23 |
| 5,676
years of professionalism celebrated |
| University
staff with a total of 5,676 years’ service
were honoured at a reception in June as part
of Leeds’ centenary celebrations |
| Live
skin substitute to unlock new products |
| Many
long-established skin products, such as shampoos
and soaps, contain harmful or ineffective ingredients
because effective testing methods were unavailable
when they were developed |
| Beating
the thieves with location tracking |
| Police
aim to ‘design out’ crime by equipping
valuable items with tracking devices that sound
an alert or record their movement |
| Caring
and diverse: a wake-up call for politicians
about the modern family |
| A
£1.3 million research project by
the ESRC-funded team on Care, Values and the
Future of Welfare (CAVA) has identified the
'practical ethics' modern families live by |
| Kids
reach for the sky to celebrate 100 years |
| children
at the University’s childcare centre Bright
Beginnings celebrated the centenary with a balloon
release on June 16 |
| Beware
abuses of history, says medievalist |
| Historian
Ian Wood is setting out to prove how views of
the middle ages have a deep impact on events
today |
| 3-D
movement captured to conduct music |
| Dr
Kia Ng of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific
Research in Music is developing ways of capturing
human movement in three dimensions and using
it to instruct computers to control or create
music |
| Protein
mapping initiative gets cash boost |
| Leeds
has been awarded £2.3m to help map ‘membrane
proteins’ |
| Go-ahead
for £6.5m public health institute |
| Leeds
will become a major contributor to improving
the nation’s health with the construction
of a world-class Institute of Health Science
and Public Health Research on the University’s
western campus |
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