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University of Leicester recognised in UK's Best Breakthroughs list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-university-of-leicester-recognised-in-uks-best-breakthroughs-list
UK's Best Breakthrough List Sir Alec Jeffreys|Discovery of DNA Fingerprinting celebrated for transformational impact on everyday lives The discovery of DNA fingerprinting from the University of Leicester has today been named as one of the UK’s 100 best breakthroughs for...
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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...
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Precision medicine
https://le.ac.uk/lung-health/research/precision-medicine
Much of the work carried out by the Respiratory Theme falls under the description of Precision Medicine.
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University of Leicester remembers playwright Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/university-of-leicester-remembers-playwright-joe-orton
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton and the occasion is being marked by a host of events remembering his work and involving our University. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a leading postwar playwright.
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Historic US government publications now online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/historic-us-government-publications-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 It is now possible to search issues of the US Congressional Record (which comprises the debates and proceedings of the United States Congress and the history of Bills and other...
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Leicestershire Innovation Festival launches from Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/innovation-festival
Will Wells, Commercial Director at the University of Leicester, later led guests on a tour of the cutting-edge facilities at Space Park Leicester, ahead of the cluster’s formal launch in March.
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Alice Munro, Canadian ‘Master’ of the Short Story
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/01/alice-munro-canadian/
Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 2013
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Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...
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Book Group: Brideshead Revisited
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/01/27/bookgroupbrideshead/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on January 27, 2014 Interpretations of Brideshead Revisited On Saturday 25th January 2014, the whole group met for the first time at Leicester Central Library to discuss Brideshead Revisited .
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Increasing the Retirement Age won’t solve the Pensions Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/12/05/increasing-the-pension-age-wont-solve-the-pensions-crisis/
Posted by in School of Business Blog on December 5, 2013 Jo Grady, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the School, responds to George Osbourne’s Autumn Statement, particularly on its proposal to increase the retirement age to 70. Speaking on LBC 97.