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  • New think tank on diversity and community engagement launches

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/new-think-tank-on-diversity-and-community-engagement-launches

    Update: A video of the launch event lecture delivered by Lord Ouseley is available below A new think-tank tackling issues relating to diversity, inclusion, migration, integration, race and religion is to be launched with a lecture by Lord Ouseley who is at the forefront of...

  • New joint venture to tackle air pollution announced

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/new-joint-venture-to-tackle-air-pollution-announced

    EarthSense Systems, a new joint venture between aerial mapping company Bluesky and our University, is set to spearhead innovations in air quality monitoring.

  • Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds

    A new study has demonstrated that using  the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can improve decisions about antibiotic prescribing and help combat rising levels of antibiotic resistance.

  • General News on the Internet Web Archive

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress .  Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.

  • Medical Biosciences (Microbiology) MBiolSci

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-microbiology-mbiolsci/2026

    Infectious diseases are responsible for a third of all deaths and are a major cause of death in infants and young children. The sheer diversity of pathogens and the exotic mechanisms they have evolved to escape the human immune system make them a fascinating topic to study.

  • Students in national top 5 for global mental health volunteering

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/students-in-national-top-5-for-mental-health-volunteering

    As of 2018, our University is the 4th highest academic institution in the UK for student sign-ups to international volunteering placements with mental health-focused organisation SLV.Global. SLV.

  • New heart attack genes discovered

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

    Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

  • New Years Honours University links

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-years-honours-university-links

    Members of our University have again been recognised in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered genetic fingerprinting at this University, has been has been appointed as a Companion of Honour (CH).

  • Leicester in new study on social identity

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-in-new-study-on-social-identity

    The University has been selected as the only UK university to be involved in a Europe-wide project studying social identity.

  • Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

    Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.

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