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  2. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds - Wikipedia

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    The institute is based on University Road, within the main University of Leeds campus, housing approximately 90 academic/research staff. ITS received royal recognition in 2009 by winning a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education - the prize was awarded for "sustained excellence - 40 years' impact in transport ...

  3. Great Hall of the University of Leeds - Wikipedia

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    This collegiate style used by Alfred Waterhouse helped to coin the term red brick university, a phrase first used by Edgar Allison Peers (under the pseudonym "Bruce Truscot"), a Spanish Professor at the University of Liverpool in his 1943 book Redbrick University when describing the Victoria Building, University of Liverpool.

  4. Sarah Harris (scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Anne Harris is a British physicist who is an Associate Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Leeds. [1] [2] Her research investigates biomolecular simulations and the topology of DNA. In particular, she makes use of molecular dynamics to explore how DNA responds to stress.

  5. List of University of Manchester people - Wikipedia

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    Helen Gleeson OBE, BSc in physics 1983, PhD in 1986 and the first woman to hold a chair in the Physics Department at the Victoria University of Manchester, before becoming Head of School in 2008. She specialises in soft matter and liquid crystals and is now Cavendish Professor and Head of the School of Physics at the University of Leeds.

  6. Weetwood Playing Fields - Wikipedia

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    The ground was scheduled to host a further first-class match between Leeds/Bradford MCCU and Warwickshire in 2020, [1] however this was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England. With the loss of first-class status for MCC University matches from the 2021 season onward, first-class cricket at the Playing Fields has ended for the ...

  7. University of Reading - Wikipedia

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    The university owes its first origins to the Schools of Art and Science established in Reading in 1860 and 1870. In 1892, the College at Reading was founded as an extension college by Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford.

  8. School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge - Wikipedia

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    The School of Clinical Medicine is the medical school of the University of Cambridge in England.The medical school is considered as being one of the most prestigious in the world, ranking as 1st in The Complete University Guide, [1] followed by Oxford University Medical School, Harvard Medical School, and Stanford School of Medicine and 2nd in the world in the 2023 Times Higher Education ...

  9. University of Essex - Wikipedia

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    The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England.Established by royal charter in 1965, it is one of the original plate glass universities.The university shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Essex and the motto: "Thought the harder, heart the keener" is adapted from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon. [5]