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• Leicester leads major breakthrough in asbestos linked cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/confirm

  A University of Leicester led team has made a major breakthrough in treating mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer linked to breathing in asbestos, which could help add years to patients’ lives.

• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 5-6

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/08/22/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-5-6/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.   Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu.

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the University of Leicester’s English course, from September.

• Research grant for study into nuclear weapons and cyber warfare

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/previous-research-projects/research-grant-for-study-into-nuclear-weapons-and-cyber-warfare

  Research will look into whether today’s nuclear weapons are safe from computer hacking, taking pace at The University of Leicester.

• The art of scientific glassblowing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/the-art-of-scientific-glassblowing

  Gayle Price, our talented glassblower, has been interviewed by the Wellcome Collection about the art of glassblowing and ways in which art and science connect in interesting ways.

• Leicester scientist heads to Westminster

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-scientist-heads-to-westminster

  On Tuesday 13 March, PhD student at our University Katie Raymer will be attending Voice of the Future 2018- a unique event offering young scientists and engineers the opportunity to quiz key political figures at the Houses of Parliament about science policy.

• Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge

  As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.

• Award-winning students demonstrate their employability to EU experts

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/award-winning-students-demonstrate-their-employability-to-eu-experts

  Two University of Leicester students have won the second edition of the EU Careers Challenge. Loren Cooper and Jean-Vincent Vallée were part of the winning team that were tasked with solving Europe’s challenges around the Digital Agenda.

• Student volunteer dishes out positivity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/student-volunteer-dishes-out-positivity

  Izzy Evans, a Psychology with cognitive neuroscience student at Leicester, has spent the past two years volunteering with local charity The Bridge to offer a helping hand in the kitchen- an experience that she says has been ‘invaluable’ to her.