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• The death penalty and international anti-drug operations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-death-penalty-and-international-anti-drug-operations

  A human rights campaigner is to speak at our University on how European Union support for anti-drug operations internationally should change in light of the increased use of the death penalty for drug offences.

• University stamp features on postbox to mark the 50th anniversary of Royal Mail Special Stamps

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-stamp-to-feature-on-postbox-in-leicester-to-mark-the-50th-anniversary-of-royal-mail-special-stamps

  The stamp of the University of Leicester issued in 1971 was unveiled today by President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle on a post box in Leicester to mark the 50th anniversary of Royal Mail’s much-loved modern Special Stamps programme.

• Lad culture in education promotes misogynistic messages researchers say

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/lad-culture2019-in-education-promotes-misogynistic-messages-researchers-say

  Researchers will be debating the rise of ‘lad culture’ in education and how it promotes a ‘nexus of sexism’ at an upcoming free public event on 22 June.

• Link between inherited DNA sequences and heart disease identified

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/link-between-inherited-dna-sequences-and-heart-disease-identified

  A study to examine recessively inherited genome-wide DNA sequences has for the first time discovered a potential link with Britain’s biggest killer – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

• Case of memoryloss man like nothing we have ever seen before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/case-of-memory-loss-man-like-nothing-we-have-ever-seen-before

  Clinical psychologist Dr Gerald Burgess from the School of Psychology has described treating an individual with a ‘Groundhog Day/Memento’- style memory loss after a root-canal treatment at a dentist as ‘like nothing we have ever seen before’ in a paper published in...

• Study finds veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-veins-on-mars-were-formed-by-evaporating-ancient-lakes

  Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown.

• Study measures the pulse of planet Earth to unearth climate change secrets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/study-measures-the-pulse-of-planet-earth2019-to-unearth-climate-change-secrets

  An international research team led by Professor Heiko Balzter from the Department of Geography has for the first time harnessed technology typically used to diagnose heart disease in order to measure planet Earth’s pulse – and has uncovered hidden patterns of...

• History of Judaism in Leicester to be explored at event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/history-of-judaism-in-leicester-to-be-explored-at-event

  The history of Judaism in Leicester will be explored at a free public event on Thursday 6 October.

• Lecture to discuss how sexual commerce has adapted to the digital age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/how-sexual-commerce-has-adapted-to-the-digital-age

  An exploration of how commercial sex in the Western world is mediated or performed through the internet and digital technologies forms part of a series of free seminars available for the public to attend through 2016/17.

• International seminar tackles the construction of gender sexuality and warfare in history art and literature

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/international-seminar-tackles-the-construction-of-gender-sexuality-and-warfare-in-history-art-and-literature

  Do questions of gender and sexuality play a significant part in the way wars are waged, mediated and understood? This month, academics from across the world will visit Leicester to explore this question.