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School of Music head wins British Composer Award

Published
Wednesday 3rd December, 2014
Categories
Arts & Culture

Professor Martin Iddon, who leads the School of Music, won the Chamber category in the British Composer Awards for his composition, Danaí«.

Reframing disaster: revisiting global disasters

Published
Thursday 27th November, 2014
Categories
Society & Politics

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas disaster in India, the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th anniversary of the South Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004.

Stroke damage mechanism identified

Published
Wednesday 26th November, 2014
Categories
Health

Researchers have discovered a mechanism linked to the brain damage often suffered by stroke victims"”and are now searching for drugs to block it.

Geoengineering our climate is not a 'quick fix'

Published
Wednesday 26th November, 2014
Categories
Environment

The deliberate, large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system is not a "quick fix" for global warming, according to the findings of the UK's first publicly funded studies on geoengineering.

Missing gene linked to autism

Published
Tuesday 25th November, 2014
Categories
Health

Researchers at the University of Leeds have shed light on a gene mutation linked to autistic traits.

National award for transforming data into knowledge

Published
Friday 14th November, 2014
Categories
Working with business
University

A collaboration between Leeds-based The Phoenix Partnership (TPP) and the University of Leeds has won a national Research Council UK impact award from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency.