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University of Leeds awards honorary degrees

Published
Friday 10th July, 2015
Categories
University

Olympic boxer, Nicola Adams, and Sir Peter Hendy, Leeds graduate and the new Chairman of Network Rail, are amongst a host of distinguished individuals receiving an honorary degree this year

Launch of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics

Published
Friday 10th July, 2015
Categories
Working with business

A new institute set up to help public and private sector organisations meet the challenges and opportunities of the Big Data revolution opens its doors today.

The new library: bees, booths and broadband

Published
Tuesday 7th July, 2015
Categories
University

It has 50,000 bees living in hives on the roof; over 900 new study places connected to superfast broadband; it has 150,000 books - with hundreds of thousands more publications available online.

It's time for Reform: Leeds International Medieval Congress

Published
Monday 6th July, 2015
Categories
Arts & Culture
University

This week marks the 22nd annual International Medieval Congress (6 - 9 July), when more than two thousand of the world's most knowledgeable medievalists descend on the University of Leeds.

Nurturing the arts education leaders of the future

Published
Tuesday 30th June, 2015
Categories
Working with business
Arts & Culture

A new UK scholarship for arts educators on the cusp of their careers has been launched as part of a pioneering collaboration between Opera North and the University of Leeds.

New research aims to charge robots remotely

Published
Monday 29th June, 2015
Categories
Technology

Researchers at the University of Leeds are taking part in a project to develop ways to wirelessly "beam" power into robots and other digital systems.