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• Study shows potential cause of most common emergency condition of main artery in body

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/study-shows-potential-cause-of-most-common-emergency-condition-of-main-artery-in-body

  Professor Toru Suzuki (pictured) from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences has been involved in a new study to understand the underlying cause of the most common emergency condition of the aorta – the main artery in the human body.

• 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.

• £2m study - ethnicity and COVID-19 in healthcare workers

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-uk-reach

  UK-REACH will investigate data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority healthcare works.

• 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.

• Survey ranks Leicester among most cost effective universities at which to study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/survey-ranks-leicester-among-most-cost-effective-universities-to-study-at

  A new survey that compares study-related expenses at universities includes the University of Leicester among the fifteen least expensive universities. The Daily Telegraph has reported on research conducted by the comparison website GoCompare.

• 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.

• Study finds wage and employment freezes impact on morale

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-wage-and-employment-freezes-impact-on-morale

  Wage and employment freezes and other actions taken to combat recessions may compromise the positive effect that employee empowerment may have on staff morale and in turn performance.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 101

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

  Academic Librarian.

• 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

• The Dreadful Burning of the City of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...