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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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40-year study finds mysterious patterns in temperatures at Jupiter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/patterns-temperature-jupiter
An international team of scientists, including at the University of Leicester, have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where the giant planet’s weather occurs and where its signature colourful...
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Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/media-practice-and-everyday-agency-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe Book edited by Leif Kramp, et al ISBN 978-3-943245-28-8 now available in full text from the Researching and Teaching Communication Book...
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Cardelle Fergusson
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/alumni-newsletter/mba-edition-four-march-2023/cardelle-fergusson
Cardelle Fergusson graduated from the Leicester MBA in 2020 with a specialisation in marketing, after a recommendation from a colleague to study at the University of Leicester.
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Professor Sir Hans Kornberg
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/hans-kornberg
Hans Kornberg with colleagues in 1974. L-R: Geoff Turnock, Arthur Rowe, unknown, David Critchley, Hans Kornberg, Ron Cooper, unknown, Colin Jones, Peter Henderson(possibly), Ken Jones (photo: Chris Willmott) The Biochemistry Department in 1974.
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MA placement 2017 – Charlotte Daynton
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/09/06/special-collections-ma-placement-charlotte-daynton/
A blog post describing my time and placement within special collections and talking about the learning resource that I have completed.
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First Forty Years of Physics at Leicester 1924-64
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/04/first-forty-years-of-physics-at-leicester-1924-64/
Professor Ken Pounds looks back upon the first four decades of Physics at the University of Leicester.
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RTE Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/rte-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.rte.
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Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 14
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/14/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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University wins support for out of the box ideas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/university-wins-support-for-2018out-of-the-box2019-ideas
Research into new drugs at the University has been boosted by government money. The University has been successful in obtaining grants totalling £1M from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to support research into new medicines.