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Pathogenesis of airway disease
https://le.ac.uk/lung-health/research/pathogenesis-of-airway-disease
Specialists This is the main focus of the laboratory-based research on the Glenfield site within the Adult Respiratory group (Amrani, Bradding, Brightling, Cousins, Siddiqui, Wardlaw), in collaboration with the Paediatric Airways group (Gaillard, Pandya), the Cell...
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Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/svom-mxt
Mission to find gamma ray bursts is latest to use technology from University of Leicester in x-ray optics
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Scientists explore complex pattern of tipping points in the Atlantic’s current system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/atlantic-tipping-points
New mathematical modelling by University of Leicester of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a system of ocean currents – shows greater complexity than previously thought, revealing a hierarchy of irreversible ‘tipping points’
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Sydney Holloway
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/sydney-holloway
We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
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Eradicating famine in Africa gets boost through new research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/researchers-resolve-to-eradicate-famine-and-food-insecurity-in-kenya
Leicester researchers are part of an international team spearheading a Newton-Utafiti Fund project delivered by the British Council to restore food security to millions of vulnerable households in Kenya following natural disasters.
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Video gallery of the Attenboroughs at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/video-gallery
View the University of Leicester’s video gallery of Sir David Attenborough, Lord Richard Attenborough and Michael Attenborough OBE
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Steve Rippington
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/steve-rippington
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Steve Rippington, Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, on 25 May 2024. Dan Smith writes: Steve was known to many in the former Department of Geology.
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Graham Benskin
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/graham-benskin
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr Graham Benskin, who worked in the Botanic Garden for more than 40 years. Graham began his horticultural career at Leicester Parks Department before becoming a student at the Royal Horticultural College at Wisley.
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Oadby telescope in black hole study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/oadby-telescope-in-black-hole-study
A telescope in Oadby is playing a crucial part in observing a rare astronomical phenomenon. NASA's Swift satellite detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from the constellation Cygnus on June 15, just before 2:32 p.m. EDT.
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Mark Rudkin
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/mark-rudkin
It is with great sadness that we have to report to colleagues across the institution that Mark Rudkin, a member of our Security team, passed away unexpectedly last week whilst at home. Mark was a Security Patrol Officer who had worked at the University since September 2012.