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Covid breathing aid - 'safe and well tolerated'

Published
24 August 2021
Categories
Global
Health
Technology
Coronavirus

A simple electrical fan is the key component of a low-cost, easy-to-use breathing-support device designed to cope with the surge in COVID-19 cases in low to middle income countries.

Professor Anne Neville

Honour for ‘outstanding engineering research’

Published
24 August 2021
Categories
Science
Working with business
Technology

The Royal Society - the UK’s leading scientific academy - has awarded its prestigious Clifford Patterson Medal and Lecture to an academic who had to cut short her career after becoming terminally ill.

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An app to help African farmers defeat crop pests

Published
11 August 2021
Categories
Global
Environment

A mobile phone app – launched today by an international team of scientists – will support farmers across Africa to adopt environmentally friendly ways of protecting their crops from pests.

Professor Nick Plant, Martin Stow, Tracy Brabin and Richelle Schuster

Nexus helps young people tackle global challenges

Published
9 August 2021
Categories
University
Business and partnerships

The University has welcomed a group of talented young people with dreams of changing the world onto a prestigious skills and entrepreneurial programme.

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Rethink the economy to tackle climate crisis 

Published
5 August 2021
Categories
Global
Business & Economy
Environment

Research into global climate models by leading international academics shows that current economic policies are in danger of leading nations away from emission and global warming targets.

Akeelah Bertram

Yorkshire Sculpture International's summer programme

Published
9 July 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture

Work by the University’s Gatenby Fellow in Contemporary Art has been selected for Yorkshire Sculpture International's summer programme, which starts this weekend.