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Bioscience departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/bioscience-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality
Our University has been further recognised for our commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education with the announcement that two of our biosciences departments have received Athena SWAN awards.
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Genetics for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics/genetics-schools-colleges
Resources Resources a student filling in a form|Genomes and genomics The complete package of genetic information needed to make a living thing - in the form of all its DNA, genes and chromosomes - is known as a genome.
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Sludge in Healthcare
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/10/18/82/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on October 18, 2018 This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science .
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World leaders announced in support for HeForShe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/world-leaders-announced-in-support-for-heforshe
World leaders and new universities and companies have now been announced – alongside the University of Leicester – for the UN’s HeForShe campaign.
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About us
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/about-us
Jeanette - Student The cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis - easy-to-understand research material, explained better than most books and sites. Excellent stuff! Biology teacher One in a million.
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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Seminars and events
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/seminars-and-events
LeMID host a range of seminars and events with internal and external professionals, presenting a variety of ground-breaking research.
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Metals in dust and soils and health
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/our-research/metals-in-dust-and-soils
The aim of this project is to investigate exposures to metals from soils and dust and assess potential health risks.
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Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/corals-pinpoint-deforestation-borneo
University of Leicester scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in environmental data on deforestation impacting coastal ecosystems
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Emeritus Professor Ron Whittam FRS
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/ron-whittam
The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Ronald Whittam FRS.