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• University of Leicester honours the President of Malta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/22-president-malta-receives-honorary-degree-doctor-laws

  Her Excellency Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, the President of the Republic of Malta, has been made an honorary graduate by the University of Leicester. The University bestowed the honorary degree at its graduation ceremony on Friday 18 January 2019 at De Montfort Hall in Leicester.

• Midlands conference to focus on NQT support and retention

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/midlands-conference-to-focus-on-nqt-support-and-retention

  Education experts are supporting NQTs through high quality training at an upcoming regional conference. The aim is to enable them to continue their professional development, remain in post and make progress in their careers, thereby helping to tackle issues of teacher retention.

• Whistleblowing and why it matters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/copy_of_whistleblowing-2013-and-why-it-matters

  Update: a recording of the lecture by Professor Mark Stein is available here. Update: a webinar on whistleblowing with Dame Ruth Silver and Professor Mark Stein is now available.

• Major funding for Leicester will help find new cancer treatments

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cancer-research-funding

  The search for new cancer treatments in Leicester is to receive a major funding investment of up to £2 million, providing future hope for people diagnosed with the disease.

• School of Business talk to ask whether statistics matter in a world of fake news

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-talk-to-ask-whether-statistics-matter-in-a-world-of-2018fake-news2019

  For an upcoming lecture, National Statistician John Pullinger will discuss how statistical communication between those creating and using statistics can be improved.

• Data protection impact assesment

  https://le.ac.uk/ias/data-protection/data-protection-impact-assesment

  What's new under GDPR legislation? Learn more about the data protection impact assessment and mitigating risks and safeguarding data when processing information.

• Richard Float

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/richard-float

  We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Richard Float, who worked in the Estates Division for more than thirty years, as Assistant Bursar and then Bursar. Richard passed away on 7 October 2024, aged 91.

• Leicester link to Nobel Prize winners

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-link-to-nobel-prize-winners

  In the latest announcement from the Nobel Prize committee, US academics Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University, Boston and Mike Young at Rockefeller University, New York, have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of...

• Jamaican Organised Crime: Aesthetics and Style

  https://le.ac.uk/dons-yardies-posses/events/workshop-3

  Learn more about the Jamaican Organised Crime: Aesthetics and Style workshop, held for the Dons, Yardies and Posses: Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime' project.

• Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate

  A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.