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Pancakes, and how life flipped upside down for Leicester’s Bake-Off chemist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pancakes-josh
Dr Josh Smalley from the University of Leicester School of Chemistry has been keeping busy since his appearance on the Great British Bake Off.
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Scientists investigating the causes of dementia have found key similarities between different diseases, paving the way for effective new diagnostics and treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/alzheimers
Experts looking into conditions including Alzheimers, Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies have found there are similar processes and biomarkers that link them
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“An amazing few days” – Leicester’s rise up the Guardian rankings completes a hat-trick of good news
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/guardian-ranking
The University of Leicester is celebrating a hat-trick of good news within the space of a few days following a rise in the 2025 Guardian University Guide rankings.
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Leicester scholars co-host international workshop to tackle SDGs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/metals-workshop-sdgs
Following a welcome from Professor Philip Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, attendees also had the opportunity to network with international colleagues as part of a UK-China bilateral early career forum.
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Leicester scientist helps fine-tune space telescope 1.5million km from home
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/miri-commissioning
A first image from MIRI was released by NASA in April, giving space scientists a glimpse of the instrument’s capabilities. The first science observations using JWST are expected to commence in July.
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UN space threats group to hear from University of Leicester expert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/un-space
The United Nations is to hear from a University of Leicester expert on space politics on how to regulate military activity in space.
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HRH Princess Royal visit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/hrh-princess-royal-visit
HRH The Princess Royal is to boldly go on a mission into space - well, the National Space Centre in Leicester. The Centre is the brainchild of the University and was co-founded by the University.
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Impact of coronavirus pandemic is the “largest scale experiment ever” into global air quality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/march/24-largest-experiment
The coronavirus pandemic is the “largest scale experiment ever” into global air quality, according to Professor Paul Monks, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science at the University of Leicester, after new satellite images from the European Space...
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Adult Learners’ Week Special: A Handful of Dust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/25/adult-learners-week-special-a-handful-of-dust/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on March 25, 2014 facsimiledustjackets.com/cgi-bin/fdj455/5072.html The Book Group is delighted to be taking part in Leicester libraries’ Adult Learners’ Week, which runs form 14-20 June 2014.
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The Paths to Equal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/the-paths-to-equal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Paths to Equal – new twin indeces on women’s empowerment and gender equality based on data for 114 countries, including data on the progress towards the Sustainable...