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• Podcast celebrates 10 years of major local health study with global impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/exceed-podcast

  Researchers behind a major health study involving 11,000 patients across the city and county have highlighted the benefits it has brought over the past 10 years

• COVID-19: study into long-term health impacts launched

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-19-study-long-term-health-impacts

  A major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been launched.

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

• Blog 1: Advertising files: Guest post by Jenni Hunt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/03/09/guest-post-by-jenni-hunt-advertising-files/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on March 9, 2021 The University Archives The University Archives at the University of Leicester are, perhaps unsurprisingly, boxes and boxes of files relating to the history of the University of Leicester.

• Indexing the Press Cuttings Books

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/01/22/indexing-the-press-cuttings-books/

  Posted by Helen Ward in Library Special Collections on January 22, 2018 Among the items held in the University of Leicester Institutional Archives are a series of Press Cuttings.

• Prague Spring – 50 years on

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/prague-spring-50-years-on/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.

• Global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/global-study-reveals-new-hypertension-and-blood-pressure-genes

  Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date, involving over 347,000 people, and jointly led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge, with...

• New archive shares insight to Attenborough refugees’ life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/attenborough-helga-bejach-orphan-college-house

  An archive of previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters from the family of Helga Bejach has been loaned to the University of Leicester.

• Government issues record grant to University of Leicester to help students study abroad

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/turing-grant-scheme

  University of Leicester has been awarded over £1 million from the UK Government’s Turing Scheme

• Refugee Week: University of Leicester announces Sanctuary Scholarships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/20-refugee-week-sanctuary-scholarships

  Support for refugees and asylum seekers to access higher education is being extended by the University of Leicester.