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  • Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/

    15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.

  • Study shows large gender imbalance in funding given for cancer research

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/study-shows-large-gender-imbalance-in-funding-given-for-cancer-research

    Male researchers receive far greater funding for cancer research than their female equivalents, suggests a study involving University of Leicester research and published in the journal BMJ Open.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/101/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Andrew Dunn: Page 101

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/101/

    Academic Librarian.

  • Insights into visual supersense provided by new study

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities

    An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.

  • Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

    A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

  • MA Scholarship Award Holders Announced

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/08/01/ma-scholarship-award-holders-announced/

    Posted by David Revill in School of English Blog on August 1, 2014 Congratulations! to the following four applicants who have each been awarded a  £2000 MA Scholarship : Mariette Cracknell (MA Victorian Studies),Kelsyn Delaney (MA Modern Literature and...

  • Breakthrough study uncovers origin of plant sperm

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/19-breakthrough-study-origin-plant-sperm

    A large international team of researchers has uncovered the origin of an ancient genetic mechanism needed for plant fertility

  • An interview with Nora Waddington

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/19/an-interview-with-nora-waddington/

    Posted by rwatson in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2016 During the 1980s an oral history project was undertaken by the Leicester Oral history Archive.  These interviews are now held by the East Midlands Oral History Archives at the University of Leicester.

  • A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.

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