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Curiosity disproves old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/curiosity-disproves-2018old-idea-of-mars-as-a-simple-basaltic-planet2019
As NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) celebrates four years on the Red Planet Leicester planetary scientist Professor John Bridges recounts the Curiosity mission’s success and explains what is next for the one-ton nuclear-powered science robot.
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Spotlight to be shone on UK women in reggae
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/spotlight-to-be-shone-on-uk-women-in-reggae
Donald Harper, a PhD student in the School of Management and music industry veteran, will be shining a light on a group of unsung heroes from the UK music industry by producing a film documentary as part of his PhD.
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Black & Gay, Back in the Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/01/black-gay-back-in-the-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2021 Black & Gay, Back in the Day is an LGBT Plus photographic archive made available via Instagram. It is maintained by Marc Thompson Director http://thelovetank.
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Conflict Trends Update and Global Peace Index Launch 2021
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/conflict-trends-update-and-global-peace-index-launch-2021/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 The latest report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Find out which nation is graded as the most peaceful. Full methodology provided on the website.
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Historic town planning: Kenya
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/5225/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Digitisation of Nairobi City Council minutes and gazette archive collection from 1920-1950 at the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi (Kenya) (EAP1357).
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Are Students addicted to their Mobile Phones?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/are-students-addicted-to-their-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Read this interesting exploratory paper. Hooked on Smartphones: An Exploratory Study on Smartphone Overuse among College Students by Uichin Lee et al.
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Midlands conference to focus on NQT support and retention
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/midlands-conference-to-focus-on-nqt-support-and-retention
Education experts are supporting NQTs through high quality training at an upcoming regional conference. The aim is to enable them to continue their professional development, remain in post and make progress in their careers, thereby helping to tackle issues of teacher retention.
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Bird of prey inspires Leicester walkers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/bird-of-prey-inspires-leicester-walkers
A bird of prey inspired researchers from the Leicester Diabetes Centre to take part in a national drive to encourage exercise.
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Activities
https://le.ac.uk/health-data-research/activities
Software tools and standards Café Variome is a complete data discovery solution designed to provide a general-purpose, web-based tool that can be quickly installed by any genotype-phenotype data owner, or network of data owners.
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Steve Pinsent
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/steve-pinsent
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Steve Pinsent, who was the University's Fire Safety Officer from 2008 to 2017.