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• Lifting and Heaving An Easter Custom

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom

  Easter is a time where we typically gift one another chocolate rabbits, embark on intrepid Easter egg hunts - and some celebrate the religious significance of the occasion.

• Historical photo could be earliest of female geologist

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/historical-photo-could-be-earliest-of-female-geologist

  An enigmatic photograph titled ‘The Geologists’ showing a lady and a gentleman in front of some rocks is believed to have been taken at Chudleigh in Devon around 1843 by the pioneer photographer William H. F. Talbot.

• Lessons to learn from Leicester success in urban policy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/lessons-to-learn-from-leicester-success-in-urban-policy

  With a Premier League winning football team and World Snooker Champion to its name, eyes have turned to Leicester as a force to be reckoned with in the sporting world.

• Mars closest to Earth in over a decade on Monday 30 May

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/mars-closest-to-earth-in-over-a-decade-on-monday-30-may

  On Bank Holiday Monday, be prepared for a celestial surprise as a planetary body sidles up next to us - or at least 46 million miles away.

• Major boost for Leicester spin-out company Haemostatix

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/major-boost-for-leicester-spin-out-company-haemostatix

  UK-based Ergomed plc, a company specialising in services to the pharmaceutical industry and new drug development, has acquired Haemostatix Ltd, originally a University of Leicester spin-out company.

• Leave economics built on dangerous fantasies says academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leave-economics-built-on-dangerous-fantasies-says-academic

  Leicester economist and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Hall (pictured) is among leading researchers who have issued a stark warning on the risks of Brexit.

• What is the Anthropocene and why is it relevant for international law

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/what-is-the-anthropocene-and-why-is-it-relevant-for-international-law

  An article written by Professors Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the Department of Geology with Professor Davor Vidas of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway is for the third month in a row ranked in the top 50 of the most-read articles in the Oxford University...

• UK medical sciences would have to scale back ambition if we became isolated from the European Union says academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/uk-medical-sciences-would-have-to-2018scale-back-ambition2019-if-we-became-isolated-from-the-european-union-says-academic

  UK medical sciences may have to ‘scale back its ambition’ if Britain leaves the European Union, according to Professor Andrew Tobin (pictured) from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.

• Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings

  The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.

• How Muhammad Ali changed the way we see sport

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/how-muhammad-ali-changed-the-way-we-see-sport

  Muhammad Ali, who passed away last week at the age of 74, changed the way we see sport and the inequalities that both feed and dramatise it, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.