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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.

• Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.

• Outreach

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach

  Through our outreach programmes, we promote our world-class research in archaeology and ancient history for the benefit of a wide audience.

• Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced

  The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced. During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high.

• Learning impact research project

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/learning-impact-research-project

  RCMG was commissioned to work on the development of Inspiring Learning for All, a vision for accessible learning in museums.

• Leicestershire and Rutland’s finest archaeological finds to be showcased at University of Leicester conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/ulas

  ULAS will be offering talks with local experts including: 'Crafting with bark: experiments to remake the Enderby Shield' with Matthew Beamish, ULAS 'Taking stock of the pot: Creating and re-creating the Glenfield Iron Age cauldrons' with John Thomas,...

• Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd

  The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.

• Study sheds light on how COVID-19 and blood glucose levels increase in-hospital cardiovascular and renal problems

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/covid-glucose

  People admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are more at risk of developing cardiovascular and renal complications if they have low or high blood glucose levels, new research has revealed.

• University of Leicester marks Holocaust Memorial Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/hmd

  The University of Leicester will mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, 27 January with a number of events organised by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and University of Leicester Students’ Union.

• Man vs. machine: New Leicester research to compare human eye-tracking with AI in first study of its kind

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/eye-tracking

  The human brain’s ability to track and process hazards will be pitted against an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool in a new interdisciplinary research study at the University of Leicester.