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Blog 3: Items of Interest. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/04/09/blog-3-items-of-interest-chosen-by-jenni-hunt/
Third blog of 3 by Jenni Hunt, temporary archive assistant, about the items she found most interesting during the listing work she has been doing.
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European Bodies in Prehistory and History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3074
Module code: AR3074 How do people understand their bodies? How does this change through time? Are bodies the product of particular kinds of historical worlds? How do these bodies play key roles in history? Drawing on research conducted by module...
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Canadian Rugby World Cup visit coincides with World War One study into autograph books by servicemen
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/canadian-rugby-world-cup-visit-coincides-with-world-war-one-study-into-2018autograph-books2019-by-servicemen
As the Canadian rugby team takes on Romania in Leicester today, researchers have been examining new evidence about a very different group of Canadian men who spent time in Leicester exactly 100 years ago.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/research
Our research facility provides a number of specialist services, including: in vivo services, our preclinical imaging facility and our infectious organisms model.
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Ethnic differences in need for heart pacemakers may have genetic link
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/ethnic-differences-in-need-for-heart-pacemakers-may-have-genetic-link
Researchers have found evidence to show that South Asian people (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) are less likely to require a pacemaker for an abnormally low heart rate compared to white people of European origin.
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Expedition 342: Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2011-12/newfoundland
June 2012 – August 2012 In June 2012, the JOIDES Resolution set sail to the North Atlantic Ocean south of Newfoundland, not far from where the RMS Titanic sank 100 years ago.
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Portable devices monitor air pollution hotspots in cities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/portable-devices-monitor-pollution-hotspots-in-cities
Scientists at our University are trialling a portable air monitor to gather precise air pollution data at a personal scale in order to help monitor pollution hotspots.
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PhD projects
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/research/projects/phd-projects
See current PhD projects being undertaken by students involved in The Stanley Burton Centre at the University of Leicester.
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Outgoing Chancellor Lord Willetts commends University of Leicester welcome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/willetts
The University of Leicester’s outgoing Chancellor The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS has commended its long-held reputation of being welcome to all, as he passes the baton to his successor.
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First, wonderful, glimpse of Jupiter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/05/first-wonderful-glimpse-of-jupiter/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 5, 2016 Wow! The Juno spacecraft did not disappoint! The images released after Juno’s first science perijove are absolutely stunning.