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With Leeds preparing to host the Chinese Olympic team as its training camp for the London Olympics, BBC Chinese will broadcast from the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ Refectory at 14.00 GMT on Sunday 5 February.
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Nanofactory, a consortium of Yorkshire's leading universities, is offering local companies free access to their expertise to help develop new products or improve processes.
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A major new national clinical trial for patients with kidney cancer is being led by a team at Leeds, and the first patients have already started receiving treatment.
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A new report on Uganda's emerging oil and gas industry says companies can improve their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to give fairer employment, compensation and land deals to communities.
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Dr Nick West of the Faculty of Medicine and Health fought off tough competition to be named the 2011 ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ Postgraduate Researcher of the Year.
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The ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ, working in partnership with Sellafield Ltd, has won the Core Chemical Engineering Award at the Institution of Chemical Engineers 2011 Awards.
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It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Researchers from the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ have teamed up with Sellafield Ltd to clean up radioactive sludge produced by the UK nuclear industry.
City centres could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ transport researchers.
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Professor Tom Ray will talk about the birth of our solar system in the School of Physics & Astronomy's 12th annual Bolton Lecture on 18 October 2011.
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¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ students are to get a once in a lifetime opportunity to contribute to European Union policy when two EU Vice Presidents visit campus next week.