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Ukraine

Published
19 April 2023
Categories
University

Update from Vice-Chancellor Professor Simone Buitendijk on the University’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Leeds hosts Digital Universities UK event

Published
13 April 2023
Categories
Technology | University

The University of Leeds is excited to host Digital Universities UK, an event bringing together higher education, industry and policy leaders at the forefront of academic innovation and technology.

Illustration of machine learning and AI concept in form of a woman's face outline with circuit board and binary data flow on blue background.

More transparency needed about merits of AI

Published
13 April 2023
Categories
Technology

AI developers need to be much more open about how they evaluate the tools they produce, to make sure people understand how effective high-tech artificial intelligence actually is.

Two sets of MRI scans of a brain, with the scan on the right hand side of eat set having the oxygen-starved tumour highlighted

Scientists closer to targeted treatment of cancer cells

Published
12 April 2023
Categories
Health

Medical imaging researchers have developed a new technology which can measure oxygen levels in tumours in real time, potentially paving the way for better targeted treatment of certain cancer cells.

Tracey Brabin, West Yorkshire Mayor and Jeanne Rivera, Cell Metrology Team Leader at the launch of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub.

Nexus home to Northern Cell Metrology Hub

Published
5 April 2023
Categories
Business & Economy | Working with business

Nexus has been unveiled as the home of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub, a new centre of innovation for clinical diagnostics and new medical technology.

Professor Helen Gleeson and Devesh Mistry working together in a laboratory

£2m investment boost for professor's 'wonder material'

Published
5 April 2023
Categories
Business & Economy | Working with business | Science

A cutting edge “deeptech” company born when a Leeds academic discovered a revolutionary new material that gets thicker as it is stretched has attracted £2 million in investment.

Illustration of a deepfake being made - a woman's face is shown being swapped with another face.

Deepfakes: has the camera always lied?

Published
31 March 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture | Technology | Society & Politics | Research

Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic.

Kimberly Campanello performs poetry to an audience with a red backdrop (left) and looks at the camera for a portrait shot (right).

Poet speaks out about young onset Parkinson’s

Published
31 March 2023
Categories
Health | Arts & Culture

A moving poem about living with young onset Parkinson's has been penned by an academic at the University of Leeds to mark World Parkinson’s Day.