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  • 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.

  • The weekend effect in hospitals: Why we need evidence to underpin policy

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/09/16/the-weekend-effect/

    Professor Julian Bion and Dr Carolyn Tarrant discuss the complex evidence behind the weekend effect and efforts to implement 7-Day Services, including results from the HiSLAC study, and emphasise the importance of using independent evidence to underpin healthcare policy.

  • How to support your premature child at school webinar now available to watch

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/webinar

    A webinar with useful information for parents and carers of prematurely born children is now available to view.

  • Hello Leicester Hollywood star Alec Baldwin pays tribute to Joe Orton for University event

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/hello-leicester-hollywood-star-alec-baldwin-pays-tribute-to-joe-orton-for-university-event

    Hollywood icon and 2017 Emmy Award nominee Alec Baldwin is playing a key role in a Leicester event celebrating the legacy of playwright Joe Orton.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Tobias Gould

    https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/tobias-gould

    Tobias is a social entrepreneur and business leader, founder of jerrybottle.com, and co-author of the Government’s flagship ‘Help to Grow’ programme delivered by 50 universities across the UK.

  • 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.

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