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Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
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Bawa-Garba and The Williams Review: NHS Leadership at the Highest Level
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/17/bawa-garba-and-the-williams-review-nhs-leadership-at-the-highest-level/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 17, 2018 This week many doctors were relieved that Hadiza Bawa-Garba ‘s appeal against her erasure from the medical register was successful.
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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/07/the-library-in-the-penal-colony-chekhovs-unsung-gift-to-sakhalin/anton_chekhov_with_bow-tie_sepia_image/
Anton Chekhov
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Heartwize charity inspires Foxes’ first teamers to buy life-saving equipment for the community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-city-players-buy-defibrillators-heartwize
Leicester City’s first-team players have purchased life-saving equipment to support the work of a charity established by two cardiologists from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust.
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Lift-off for Sentinel-3B climate satellite for real time data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/lift-off-for-sentinel-3b-climate-satellite-for-real-time-data
Scientists at the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO) today welcomed the successful launch of the newest satellite in Europe’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3B.
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Online US government information and news disappearing: Pew Internet Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/24/online-us-government-information-and-news-disappearing-pew-internet-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 Disappearing content from online websites The latest report from the Pew internet project focuses on broken links from US government and news agencies.
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Scientists investigate if red grape chemical can keep bowel cancer at bay
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/karen-brown
Trial led by University of Leicester scientists is giving participants resveratrol as a potential prevention drug for bowel cancer.
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Bake-Off contestant shows science is as easy as pi at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/bake-off-contestant-science-pi
Science Kitchen hosts 2021 Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jüergen Krauss for a pie-making workshop
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Higher Education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/gene-mutations-and-cancer/higher-education
Cancers are responsible for millions of death every year. The study of cancer biology is therefore one of the largest areas of scientific interest. Cancer cells develop specific hallmarks through a series of mutations in both oncogenes and tumour-suppressor genes.
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Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology MSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/cancer-cell-and-molecular-biology-msc/2026
This is for you if... you want to study the molecular and cell biology of cancer to an advanced level and develop a career in biological research.