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Leicester engineer receives top award from HRH The Prince of Wales
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-engineer-receives-top-award-from-hrh-the-prince-of-wales
Mechanical Engineering student Abike Looi- Somoye has been presented with a national award by HRH The Prince of Wales at the annual Industrial Cadet Awards event in London.
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Galina Mukamolova
https://le.ac.uk/people/galina-mukamolova
The academic profile of Professor Galina Mukamolova, Professor in Microbial Physiology Departmental Director of Research at University of Leicester
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Aircraft keep tabs on the Amazons rising methane levels
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/greenhouse-gas-monitoring-aircraft-keep-tabs-on-the-amazon2019s-rising-methane-levels
Research led by the National Centre of Earth Observation is going to new heights in the atmosphere to get a better handle on methane emitted from wetlands in the Amazon.
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70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/70th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations-next-year/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A new online exhibition is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.
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Spanish Elections on Sunday
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/17/spanish-elections-on-sunday/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 17, 2015 A look forward at the possible outcome of Spain’s elections on Sunday. http://www.theguardian.
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Coronations through history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/coronations-through-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 The National Archives has a mini coronations website which includes images of seals, phots and discussions of government documents.
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Freedom of Internet report 2021
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/04/freedom-of-internet-report-2021/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2021 Latest annual report from Freedom House which ranks 70 nations according to levels of internet freedom.
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LGBT and work
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/lgbt-and-work/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 A report from the TUC – the cost of being out at work – reported nearly 39% LGBT responding to their survey had been victimised or discriminated against by colleagues.
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Who were the first students of the University of Leicester?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/10/13/who-were-our-first-students/
A blog post discussing the early students of the University of Leicester.
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Locating the choir within the church
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir
A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.