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• Managing Data, Analysis and Application

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mn7711

  Module code: MN7711 Are you ready to navigate the world of big data and business analytics?  This module is designed to empower you with crucial data-driven decision-making skills.

• A small but highly significant step for Britain in space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/a-small-but-highly-significant-step-for-britain-in-space

  Professor Ken Pounds (pictured),  Emeritus Professor of Space Physics and a local pioneer of Space Research, has hailed the significance of Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut in orbit, but warned there is so far no funding beyond his present mission on...

• Carbon legacy goes up in smoke

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/carbon-legacy-goes-up-in-smoke

  It reads like a movie script – ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses, road closures trapping remote northern villages.

• Building work begins on 430000squarefoot Bible Museum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/building-work-begins-on-430-000-square-foot-bible-museum

  The eight-storey, 430,000-square-foot Museum of the Bible took a giant step toward its 2017 opening in Washington, D.C., beginning with surgical demolition of a 1982 addition to the historical building that will be reinvented as an international Bible museum.

• Careers launchpad for space industry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/careers-launchpad-for-space-industry

  The Second Annual Space Industry Careers Fair will take place on 9 February 2015 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. More than 150 students are expected, representing 38 different Universities and education institutions across the UK.

• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• Another Doctoral Grant success for School of Education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/another-doctoral-grant-success-for-school-of-education-phd-student

  Keke Zhang of the School of Education has been awarded a 2015 TOEFL Doctoral Research Grant for her research into the development and validation of a rating scale for assessing argumentative essays written by Chinese undergraduates in English programmes.

• New species of ancient tongue worm discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-species-of-ancient-tongue-worm-discovered

  An international team of scientists led by Leicester researchers has discovered a new species of fossil - a 'tongue worm' - in England and have identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder.

• University scientists involved in major international plant reproduction study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-scientists-involved-in-major-international-plant-reproduction-study

  Leicester is part of a major new study on the evolution of sexual reproduction in plants which has received 2.6 million euros in funding.

• Promising early results from new UK Type 2 diabetes prevention programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/promising-early-results-from-new-uk-type-2-diabetes-prevention-programme

  A programme aimed at preventing the development of Type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of the disease has achieved “promising” early results, a study has found.