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• University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/08/01/podcast-pythagoras-trousers/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on August 1, 2016 Juno has just passed a major milestone in its first wide orbit around the giant planet, having passed by its apojove, the furtherest distance to Jupiter (8.1 million km).

• 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.

• George Oliver

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

  George Oliver is the founder of 1284.  He is a PR and communications strategy consultant, a former media executive, and a trustee for Leicestershire charities which help people fulfil their potential.

• How space at Leicester offers hope to others

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/how-space-at-leicester-offers-hope-to-others

  Every undergraduate student enrolling at our University will help to make an out-of-this-world difference – with space blankets as part of a package of support to homeless people in Leicester.

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• Glynis Wright MBE

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

  Dr Glynis Wright MBE is an alumna of the University of Leicester and a well-known businesswoman and lawyer who made a career U-turn at the age of 40 to train for the legal profession.

• Worlds biggest study of genetics of lung health and disease allows scientists to predict chance of developing COPD

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/world2019s-biggest-study-of-genetics-of-lung-health-and-disease-allows-scientists-to-predict-chance-of-developing-copd

  The world’s biggest study into an individual’s genetic make-up and the risk of developing lung disease could allow scientists to more accurately ‘predict’ - based on genes and smoking - your chance of developing COPD, a deadly disease which is the third commonest cause of...

• University of Leicester rolls out £5m programme to combat cardiovascular burden among older adults in India

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/university-leicester-programme-cardiovascular-older-adults-india

  The University of Leicester has joined forced with New Delhi’s Centre for Chronic Disease Control to roll out a £5m trial aimed at improving the lives of over-60s in India at the highest risk of cardiovascular disease.

• Keep Calm and Scroll On!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/03/27/keep-calm-and-scroll-on/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on March 27, 2020       Hello from our homes!   Ian, our Library Assistant will be ready to greet new users when we reopen! We had to bid a sad farewell to our archive store and reading room last week, as...

• Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens

  Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.