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Millions
of people in the UK could soon be spared
the pain of sensitive teeth thanks to
an exciting discovery in the Leeds dental
institute. |
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| Drive
carefully – you’re being watched! |
From
the outside it looks like an ordinary Ford
Mondeo but the Leeds Institute for Transport
Studies’ ‘instrumented car’
is anything but. |
| New
Labour, old policies... |
| A
Leeds student made headlines during the election
campaign by telling Tony Blair there was no
difference between his government and the
Conservatives. Sociology researcher Simon
Prideaux has reached the same verdict in a
new book which examines the theory behind
New Labour’s policies and concludes
that they have ‘lost their grass roots’.
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| ...but
French
libel was revolutionary |
The
mud-slinging and intrigue of the general election
has nothing on the political pamphleteering,
blackmail and scandal in the years before
the French revolution. A University historian
is casting new light on the impact this had
on both the revolution and the contemporary
British media. |
| Making
small science big business |
Nanoscience
at Leeds could lead to cheaper heating bills
thanks to £2.2m of funding won by the
interdisciplinary nanomanufacturing institute
from Yorkshire Forward. The institute
will take nano-scale research from across
the University and work out how to reproduce
it on an industrial scale. |
| A
new wave of world cinema |
The
UK’s first centre for world cinema is
launching this month at the University, with
the aim of redefining what ‘world cinema’
actually means. |
| £5m
step towards fantastic plastic |
| A
critical mass of world-class knowledge at
the University has been awarded £5m
to study and take control of ‘materials
with attitude’. The polymers and complex
fluids interdisciplinary centre is embarking
on a Leeds-led project funded by the EPSRC
to work with industry creating brand new materials
for the 21st century. |
| Da
Vinci Code claims are old news |
The
Da Vinci Code might be the most successful
hardback to date, but the Catholic faithful
have been advised to avoid it by Cardinal
Bertone of Genoa because of its ‘vulgar
falsifications’. Leeds professor of
New Testament textual criticism Keith Elliott
reveals that this kind of scandal is nothing
new – controversial literature about
Jesus has been around since the beginning
of Christianity, but this bestselling novel
still makes for a ‘jolly good thriller’.
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| Living
memorial for Professor Macgill |
Lecturers,
cleaners, administrators and students from
Leeds University gathered in St Georges's
field to plant 500 wild flowers and trees
as a memorial to Professor Sally Macgill,
who died in the tsunami disaster in December. |
| Reviewing
the future of our University |
Values
in Higher Education, edited by Simon
Robinson and Clement Katalushi is a collection
of essays on the state and values of higher
education, some of which were originally presented
at a conference celebrating the centenary
of the University.
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| Leader
column |
This
month Professor Michael Arthur discusses the
importance of excellence in learning and teaching. |
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