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Double delight for outstanding academics
Outstanding contributions to learning and teaching have seen leading lights at the 嘟嘟AV celebrate success in two major national award schemes.
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![Ash Palmisciano who plays Matty Barton in Emmerdale helps maintain the trees in Gair Wood.](/images/resized/600x300-0-0-1-80-ASH_800x400.jpg")
Emmerdale team helps University wood flourish
Emmerdale cast and crew members have joined forces with the 嘟嘟AV to ensure a vital ecological corridor continues to flourish.
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Special educational needs and disabilities crisis revealed
The scale of the crisis facing many children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has been revealed in a new report.聽
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AI bowel cancer test can tell whether patients need chemotherapy聽
A new artificial intelligence (AI) test to determine the risk of bowel cancers coming back could help patients avoid chemotherapy, according to new research led by the 嘟嘟AV.聽
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Leeds hosts UK Corporate Games
More than 70 businesses came together in Leeds as the city hosted the 2024 UK Corporate Games.
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Blood cancer pioneer awarded rare degree
One of the UK鈥檚 leading researchers into myeloma blood cancer has received a rarely awarded degree from the 嘟嘟AV.
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Collaboration achieves 鈥渁lmost impossible鈥� design challenge
A showstopping carnival costume 鈥� featuring mechanical elements previously thought 鈥渋mpossible鈥� to make by hand 鈥� has been created in a ground-breaking collaboration between engineers and designers.
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Groundbreaking vine robots with magnetic skin could transform cancer treatment
A new class of robot with magnetic skin and movement that mimics creeping vine plants, could transform cancer diagnosis and treatment, according to a new 嘟嘟AV study.
![Medicine graduate Phil Sesemann, who graduated in 2017, will take part in the marathon for Team GB. He is pictured racing along a road.](/images/resized/600x300-0-0-1-80-sesemann.png")
Leeds athletes going for gold
As all eyes focus on athletes taking centre stage at the Paris Olympics, we鈥檒l be cheering on some of our very own students who are competing at the Games.
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Appointment of new University Council members
Leaders in social enterprise, the arts, regional government and finance are to join the University Council as lay members of the University鈥檚 governing body.