Aviation
student James Garry from the Bar5 team
in last week’s paper plane competition
which attracted national media interest.
Steve Bond, John Mackenzie and Jamie
Mountain’s winning plane ‘Spruce
Moose’ stayed airborne for 6.5
seconds in the world-record attempt
in the Great Hall.
Over 700 hours
of recordings and a wealth of electronic data
on the way we speak was presented to Dr Clive
Upton and special collections head Chris Sheppard
by the BBC Director-General Mark Thomson on
November 21, marking the end of the successful
Voices project
Almost a year on from the Boxing Day tsunami,
three universities including Leeds have welcomed
the first students on a scholarship scheme
to help restore academic expertise in Indonesia
The
White Rosettes ladies barbershop group - which
features several members of the University
- swept the board at the recent British barbershop
championships in Cardiff.