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  • Study of Natural Disasters offers insights to save lives

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/study-of-natural-disasters-offers-insights-to-save-lives

    Research into saving lives during times of natural disasters by an academic from our University has recently been published.

  • Study suggests millions of modern men are descendants of 11 dynastic leaders

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/genetic-study-suggests-millions-of-modern-are-descendants-of-11-asian-dynastic-leaders

    A team of geneticists led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics has discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders, including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan, who lived up to 4,000 years ago.

  • Study reveals new associations with lung disease and smoking behaviour

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/study-reveals-new-associations-with-lung-disease-and-smoking-behaviour

    Smokers who survive their habit into old age may hold the key to better lung health for all, according to a study involving co-led by Professor Martin Tobin (pictured) from the Department of Health Sciences and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

  • Digitising the Coventry Archives oral history collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/coventry-archives/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 by Richard Wheelband, UOSH Midlands Digitisation Engineer   The Unlocking Our Digital Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub is based in Special Collections at the University of Leicester and is preserving ‘at...

  • Research team receives 65 million for EURO SHOCK heart attack study

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/research-team-receives-20ac6-5-million-for-euro-shock-heart-attack-study

    A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has been awarded €6.5 million from the Horizon 2020 European Commission fund.

  • Study finds veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-veins-on-mars-were-formed-by-evaporating-ancient-lakes

    Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown.

  • Andrew Dunn: Page 148

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/148/

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  • Revisit historic discoveries as University of Leicester Archaeological Services celebrates thirty years

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/university-leicester-archaeological-services-celebrates-thirty-years

    University of Leicester’s archaeological unit was established in July 1995, and staff will be hosting talks on discoveries from throughout its history as part of the Festival of Archaeology

  • Expert reaction to study looking at air pollution and lung cancer survival

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-air-pollution-and-lung-cancer-survival

    Professor Michael Peake (pictured), Honorary Consultant and Professor of Respiratory Medicine from the Institute for Lung Health has commented on new research suggesting that pollution may shorten lung cancer patients' lives.

  • Remembering Exile and Transportation: some thoughts from Cape Town

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/11/02/remembering-exile-and-transportation-some-thoughts-from-cape-town/

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 2, 2014   Before I began T he Carceral Archipelago project , my research was loosely centred on the history of Indian Ocean penal settlements and colonies, from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.

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