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Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/decent-work-economic-growth
The eighth Sustainable Development Goal is to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Tropical phages
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/bacteriophages/tropical-phages
Tropical phages/temperature dependent bacteriophages switch between lysogenic and lytic phases. At the university, research has been done on the tropical pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei which can cause melioidosis
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HPRU Publications
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/hpru-publications
A list of publications produced by HPRU Leicester
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Digital showcase wins prestigious award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/digital-showcase-wins-prestigious-award
A project that showcases the lives of British scientists involved in some of the most remarkable scientific and engineering discoveries of the last century has won a prestigious award from the Royal Historical Society.
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New effects in ideal gases solve mathematical mystery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-effects-in-ideal-gases-solve-mathematical-mystery
A Mathematician from our Department of Mathematics, Professor Alexander Gorban, along with a physicist from ETH Zürich, Ilya Karlin, have challenged traditional concepts of micro and macro worlds and demonstrated how ideal gas unexpectedly exhibits capillarity properties.
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Expert opinions cover publishing difficulties political rivalries Donald Trump and RRS Boaty McBoatface
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-difficulties-of-being-published-when-covering-hard-to-classify-topics
Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for the Times Higher Education about the difficulties of being published when writing about difficult-to-classify topics, such as those of an interdisciplinary nature.
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College of Life Sciences
https://le.ac.uk/cls
Comprising four schools, six departments, research centres and institutes; the College of Life Sciences is an innovative hub for teaching and research at the University of Leicester.
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MBE awarded to ‘unsung hero’ university champion of regional business engagement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/anjuu-trevedi-awarded-mbe
Anjuu Trevedi awarded MBE in the 2021 New Year Honours list, for services to business innovation and to the economy in Leicestershire.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/timms/people
Meet the team behind the Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) at the University of Leicester.
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Alex Keller
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/alex-keller
The University has learned, with regret, of the death of Professor Alex Keller who taught history of science and technology at Leicester 1963-1997.