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Book your placeChemistry student wins Reckitt Sustainability Challenge prize
Jed Walsh, a final year Chemistry MChem, BSc student, was awarded the second place prize in the Reckitt Sustainability Challenge 2024.
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'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'
Submitted research outputs, REF 2021
82nd
in the world
QS World University Rankings 2025
Silver
award for our commitment to gender equality
Athena SWAN Charter
Research and innovation
Our world-leading research cuts across the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The themes of our research groups are all at the disciplinary interfaces of chemistry, with: physics, geology and biology, physics and mathematics, biology and medicine, materials science, medicine and chemical engineering.
Chemistry graduate wins prestigious Salters’ Award 2024
Jo Morton, Chemistry with a Year in Industry graduate, has won the Salters’…
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Congratulations to all students who participated in the Faculty of…
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Leeds Materials Science alum Matthias Maurer spent 175 days on the…
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Scientists have found a way to create artificial sugars that could lead to…
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