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• Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

  A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

• University of Leicester and Sporting Equals address lack of diversity in sports leadership

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/leaderboard

  A programme designed to support and prepare people from minority ethnic backgrounds for future governance and leadership roles in UK sport has completed its fourth year.

• Dr Roger James

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/roger-james

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Dr Roger James, a former Reader in Immunology in the Department of Respiratory Sciences (previously Infection, Immunity and Inflammation). Roger was born on 8 September 1949.

• The role of a lay member in AWERB

  https://le.ac.uk/dbs/animal-welfare/awerb/role-of-lay-members-in-the-awerb

  The University of Leicester's AWERB includes the roles of lay members to ensure fairness and independent perspectives on the use of animals in research.

• Prestigious grant powers research into revolutionary battery technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prestigious-grant-powers-research-into-revolutionary-battery-technology

  Research by our Department of Chemistry into alternatives to conventional batteries has been boosted by funding from the European Union.

• New collaboration sees Museum Studies students access vast Arts Council Collection

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-collaboration-sees-museum-studies-students-access-vast-arts-council-collection

  Boundaries will be crossed and relationships formed in a new exhibition by University of Leicester students that will feature internationally celebrated artworks.

• Conference explores how death can be the beginning - not the end

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/conference-questions-when-death-truly-takes-place

  A three day international and interdisciplinary conference took place between 16-18 April which explored themes around death and dying and how our departure from this life may not be as set in stone as may be assumed.

• Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed

  The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.

• New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot

  Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.

• Diabetes risk score translation event taking place in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/diabetes-risk-score-translation-event-taking-place-in-leicester

  An event to launch the translation of a Type 2 diabetes risk assessment tool into two South Asian languages takes place in Leicester next week.