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Rachel Woolford, Jane Slimming and Becky Dam with a large group of students.

Young entrepreneurs pitch to business experts

Published
Tuesday 7th May, 2024
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University
Working with business

Students from Leeds University Business School (LUBS) showed off their entrepreneurial spirit as they pitched business ideas to industry experts in the LUBS Entrepreneur Award 2024.

Four members of University staff standing in front of equipment in new nuclear research facility

Facility to advance new-era nuclear research

Published
Friday 3rd May, 2024
Categories
News

The creation of a new cutting-edge facility has established the University of Leeds as the UK’s leading experimental nuclear institution in the field of multiphase fluid flow.

Artist Mohammad Barrangi smiles in front of works from 'One Night, One Dream, Life In the Lighthouse' displayed on a red wall

Exhibition explores migration, memory and disability

Published
Thursday 2nd May, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

An exhibition by Leeds-based Iranian artist Mohammad Barrangi opens on 1 May at the University of Leeds, as part of the year-long Smeaton300 celebrations.

Lyndon Timings-Thompson and James McBride are pictured outside Nexus on the University of Leeds campus

Alum makes Forbes entrepreneur list

Published
Wednesday 1st May, 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

The founder of a social enterprise that helps disadvantaged people back into work has been recognised in a list of Europe’s top young entrepreneurs.

Artist’s concept of a golden exoplanet with a ring around it, spiralling in towards its star.

Study reveals mystery of decaying planetary orbits

Published
Monday 29th April, 2024
Categories
Science
Research

A new study has uncovered a mechanism that could solve a long-standing mystery about decaying planetary orbits around stars like our Sun. 

A child and a parent sit across from a doctor, who is making notes on a clipboard.

Boosting children’s mental health

Published
Friday 26th April, 2024
Categories
Health

A new plan for Government to boost children’s mental health through the education system is released today.

Two children are watching a Professor show them the parts of the human body on a model.

Get inspired at Be Curious 2024

Published
Friday 26th April, 2024
Categories
Working with our region
University

Be Curious, the annual University of Leeds family open day, is back for 2024.

Dramatic shot of a cup of beer, the Northern Monk Mhór can and three candles

Research inspires beer based on ancient recipe

Published
Thursday 25th April, 2024
Categories
Working with business
Arts & Culture
Research

Northern Monk Brew Co. and a historian at the University of Leeds have collaborated to brew Mhór, a beer inspired by a 5,000-year-old recipe made in Northern England.

Pupils from Leeds City Academy use brushes to detect fingerprints at a mocked-up crime scene.

Pupils become knife crime ambassadors

Published
Wednesday 24th April, 2024
Categories
Working with our region

Campaigner Sarah Lloyd, whose 17 year-old son died after being brutally stabbed, has shared the devastating impact of his death with local schoolchildren in an anti-knife crime initiative.