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Joanna Leng champions the N8 network at Leeds
The N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research, of which the University of Leeds is a partner, has officially been recognised as a chapter by Women in High Performance Computing.
Covid breathing aid - 'safe and well tolerated'
A simple electrical fan is the key component of a low-cost, easy-to-use breathing-support device designed to cope with the surge in COVID-19 cases in low to middle income countries.
Honour for ‘outstanding engineering research’
The Royal Society - the UK’s leading scientific academy - has awarded its prestigious Clifford Patterson Medal and Lecture to an academic who had to cut short her career after becoming terminally ill.
Taste cells can control a whole animal’s foraging
Neuroscientists have developed a computer model to explain how a nematode worm searches for food, revealing that single brain cells can both sense the environment and control foraging strategy.
Graduate wins prestigious Salters’ Award
Stewart Holloway, MChem Medicinal Chemistry graduate has won a 2021 Salters' Graduate Award.