News

Ecologists uncover 'hyperdominant' tree species in the Amazon

Published
Friday 18th October, 2013
Categories
Environment

Academics from the University of Leeds have joined researchers from around the world to generate the first basin-wide estimates of the abundance and distribution of trees in the Amazon rainforest.

Next generation of Arts and Humanities researchers

Published
Tuesday 15th October, 2013
Categories
Arts & Culture
University

A successful collaboration between the White Rose universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield has received a £19m Doctoral Training Partnership award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

University of Leeds and P&G join forces

Published
Friday 11th October, 2013

The University of Leeds and multinational consumer goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) have signed a strategic agreement that will harness academic research to develop new high-tech products.

CLOUD gives clarity on climate change

Published
Monday 7th October, 2013
Categories
Environment

University of Leeds experts have helped scientists get a step closer to understanding how aerosol particles are formed in the atmosphere and the effect these particles have on our climate.

Breast cancer research gaps risking lives

Published
Tuesday 1st October, 2013
Categories
Health

University of Leeds academics have leant their expertise to an analysis identifying the ten critical gaps that exist in breast cancer research, which, if not urgently addressed, could see the loss of about 185,000 lives by 2030.

New trial to bring hope for people with arthritis

Published
Monday 30th September, 2013
Categories
Health

University of Leeds researchers are to carry out a major new clinical trial that could bring relief to the six million people in the UK with the potentially crippling condition of osteoarthritis of the knee.