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"We must level the playing field for BAME students" says new Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-bame-students
nishan smiling to the camera|The University of Leicester’s new vice-chancellor has pledged to eliminate the ‘awarding gap’ which sees many students missing out on top degrees.
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First Professors of Nursing and Midwifery herald unique new courses
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/first-professors-of-nursing-and-midwifery-herald-unique-new-courses
Leicester has taken the first steps in establishing a new centre for nursing and midwifery expertise with the appointment of two Foundation Professors and approval granted for a suite of innovative new degree courses.
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Project trials self-screening kiosks in Leicestershire workplaces to detect COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/self-screening-kiosks
New project launched by the University of Leicester trials self-screening kiosks in Leicestershire workplaces to detect COVID 19 in workers
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Spotlight on SLAIDER -- Self-learning AI-based digital twins for accelerating clinical care in respiratory emergency admissions
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/life-health-sciences/slaider
SLAIDER is a £620k project running from 2023 to 2025 and funded by the EPSRC. To provide more context on the project, the team was asked several questions about SLAIDER and how it could impact real-life clinical care.
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Academic comments on the rise of kids activities being marketed to adults
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/academic-comments-on-the-rise-of-kids2019-activities-being-marketed-to-adults
Dr Jane Pilcher from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology has been featured in an article for The Guardian discussing why kids’ activities – such as bouncy castles and ballpits - are now being marketed to grown men and women.
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Volcanoes, Tectonics and Mineral Resources
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/volcanoes
Volcanology research investigates the evolution of the Earth’s crust and its interrelationships with the mantle and atmosphere/ocean system.
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Climate change
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change
Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...
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Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.
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Report explores the value we place in arts and culture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture
Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...
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DNA and family history explored in public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture
The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.