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Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-antarctica-volcanoes-climate
Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the volcanoes of the Antarctic as he receives his second Polar Medal.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/copd
COPD is a progressive-obstructive disease that is not completely reversible and is predominantly caused by smoking. COPD is characterised by intermittent flare-ups that commonly lead to bacterial infections. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are both features of COPD. Asthma.
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PPI in research
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-ppi-group/ppi-in-research
PPI in research is explaining in lay terms patient engagement
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£5.5 million research unit to investigate chemical health impacts in everyday life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/hpru
New funding from National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to establish Health Protection Research Unit in Chemical Threats and Hazards at University of Leicester
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Leicester is named Daily Mail University of the Year 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/daily-mail-award
The University of Leicester has been crowned the Daily Mail University of the Year 2025.
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Britain’s largest ‘Sea Dragon’ discovered in Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/rutland-sea-dragon
Ichthyosaurs first appeared around 250 million years ago and went extinct 90 million years ago. They were an extraordinary group of marine reptiles that varied in size from 1 to more than 25 metres in length, and resembled dolphins in general body shape.
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New carbon-monitoring satellite will shed light on photosynthesis thanks to Leicester scientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/microcarb-carbon-monitoring-satellite-photosynthesis
An algorithm designed by scientists at the University of Leicester and National Centre for Earth Observation, based at Space Park Leicester, will allow the MicroCarb mission to observe solar induced fluorescence (SIF) – a by-product and indicator of plant photosynthesis
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Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System,...
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Incentives alone won’t bring gender equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/01/incentives-alone-wont-bring-gender-equality/
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on October 1, 2014 Doris Ruth Eikhof*, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, underlines why there’s so much more to the problem of gender inequality than the task of getting the incentives right Those...
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Getting Lost in Oxford: Dr Rob M Francis’ psychogeographical explorations as David Bradshaw Creative
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/05/29/getting-lost-in-oxford-dr-rob-m-francis-psychogeographical-explorations-as-david-bradshaw-creative-writer-in-residence/
Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on May 29, 2019 Psychogeographer, Dr Robert M.