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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.

• 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.

• The Morning after Brexit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/07/05/the-morning-after-brexit/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on July 5, 2016   Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum.   On the morning of the 24 th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly.

• University of Leicester archaeologists identify ancient Stonehenge gold digging kit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gold

  University of Leicester archaeologists have identified a 4000-year-old gold working tool kit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge.

• Protecting children from war and violence

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/protecting-children

  In any society subjected to war or violence, children are the innocent victims. Even if they are not injured themselves, the experience is understandably traumatic.

• New grant to speed up bowel cancer diagnosis

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/new-grant-to-speed-up-bowel-cancer-diagnosis

  Scientists from Leicester, working with Edinburgh, have been awarded a grant of almost £25,000 from Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer to investigate whether it’s possible to find DNA from cancer cells in stool samples.

• 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

• 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...

• 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.

• 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...