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• Modelling Migration

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/modelling-migration

  Academic advisors: Professor Simon James, Professor Mark Jobling and Professor Jo Story Research Associate: Dr Rita Rasteiro Human genetic diversity has many layers, reflecting different demographic episodes such as particular past migrations and diasporas.

• Young entrepreneurs in the making reach final of national enterprise skills competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/young-entrepreneurs-in-the-making-reach-final-of-national-business-competition

  Two University of Leicester teams were coached by the Doctoral College to take part in the recent highly prestigious Young Entrepreneur Scheme (YES) heats, with one team lined up to take part in the national finals.

• A quarter of FTSE 350 companies have only one woman on their board 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/a-quarter-of-ftse-350-companies-have-only-one-woman-on-their-board/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 …according to the 2018  report of the Hampton-Alexander review  into increasing the number of women in senior positions in FTSE 350 companies.

• Launching ‘Black History Month’ Newsletters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/launching-black-history-month-newsletters/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 The Postgraduate Team have launched a new series of Black History Month newsletters for the School of Physics and Astronomy. Emma Thomas explains the inspirations behind this effort.

• Simple urine test could stop lung attacks and improve the lives of people with COPD

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/simple-urine-test-could-stop-2018lung-attacks2019-and-improve-the-lives-of-people-with-copd

  A team of scientists at our University working in partnership with Mologic has unveiled an innovative technology which could “hugely improve” the quality of life for people who suffer from a serious lung condition called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

• Leicestershire girls challenged to uncover the story behind Richard III

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicestershire-girls-challenged-to-uncover-the-story-behind-richard-iii

  Thousands of girls from across Leicestershire are being challenged to find out more about King Richard III as part of an innovative new badge from Girlguiding Leicestershire.

• Catrin Pritchard

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/catrin-pritchard

  Catrin received her MA in Biochemistry from Jesus College, Oxford University in 1983, and in 1987 she finished her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund on mapping of the male determining gene on the human Y chromosome.

• 19th January 2014 Sol 517

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/01/19/19th-january-2014-sol-517/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 19, 2014 On Earth rocks that are as ancient as those we are studying on Mars have been destroyed by the tectonic recycling process or heavily metamorphosed.

• Tuesday 22nd January 2013 Sol 166

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/01/22/tuesday-22nd-january-2013-sol-166/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 22, 2013 This close up view of one of the veins was taken as an RMI image by one of the two ChemCam lasers after the Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).

• Convicts Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French Empires

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/convicts-creolization-and-cosmopolitanism-in-the-british-and-french-empires

  Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French Empires, funded by the Leverhulme Trust is the first interdisciplinary and comparative study of descent and descendants among these non-Europeans, during the period since the 1780s when individual...