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• Japanese manga series to showcase women in the sciences

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/japanese-manga-series-to-showcase-women-in-the-sciences

  Dr Ana Verissimo from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences is combining her love for Japanese art with her passion for the sciences by launching a campaign to create the first instalment in a new manga series.

• Crocus Sundays at the Botanic Garden

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/11-crocus-sundays

  On 23 February and 1 March the public are invited to visit our Botanic Garden in Oadby for the annual ‘Crocus Sundays’ display of spring flowers. At this time of year the Botanic Garden, one of Leicester’s hidden gems, presents a magnificent spectacle.

• Love Island star Dr Alex George to visit University to discuss mental health

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/dr-alex-george

  Love Island star and Youth Mental Health Ambassador, Dr Alex George, will visit the University of Leicester to talk to students about the importance of protecting their mental health.

• A Tale of Muslim Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/a-tale-of-muslim-britain

  Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first British Muslim woman to attend Parliament, spoke to a large and diverse audience at a Unit for Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement (DICE) public event held on 21 June at the University of Leicester.

• Space Plasma Physics

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/space-plasma-physics

  Space plasma physics is the study of the Sun’s hot, ionized outer atmosphere and its interactions with the planets and other bodies of the solar system.

• Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum

  What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...

• khn5

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/keith_nockels/

  Introducing the Library’s Inclusive Collections Group Posted by khn5 in Library and Learning Services on March 13, 2023 The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body.

• 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.

• A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

• Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for U

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/07/17/differentiating-high-involvement-management-from-high-performance-work-systems-and-why-it-matters-for-uk-productivity/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on July 17, 2020     Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis.