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Dennis Smith
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/dennis-smith
We have learned with sadness of the recent death of Professor Dennis Smith, who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1970s. Professor Smith passed away in February 2024.
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Prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington to take part in Literary Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prolific-shakespearean-actor-and-recent-king-lear-michael-pennington-to-take-part-in-literary-leicester
Eminent stage actor, writer and director Michael Pennington will be delivering a talk and Q&A at our Literary Leicester festival on 16 November. Renowned for his performance as King Lear in New York 2014, Michael reprised the role for a major UK tour in 2016.
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International science forum in Leicester to drive forward Polish-British space relationship
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/polish-british-science-forum
International conference on 11 December will strengthen space science relationships between the UK and Poland.
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Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/03/09/behind-the-scenes-at-the-21st-century-museum/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on March 9, 2015 The Museum of Liverpool © Ben Kirkpatrick You can now sign up for our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course): Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , which will run for 6 weeks from 1 st June 2015.
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Summer School to help raise aspirations of young people in care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/summer-school-to-help-raise-aspirations-of-young-people-in-care
The University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Loughborough University will be hosting their tenth annual Summer School event, which aims to improve the life chances of young people in public care.
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The World of RePEc
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/24/the-world-of-repec/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2017 A new paper explores the world of RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) the major database of economics papers.
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Pioneering African mental health study receives millions in funding from Wellcome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/neet
A Wellcome-funded study led by the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and others, aims to identify predictors of depression among NEET youth in Africa.
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Bone laboratory
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/about/laboratories/bone
Our bone laboratory is dedicated to the study of animal bones from archaeological sites and the analysis of human skeletal material.
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Leicester chemist wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-chemist-wins-prestigious-royal-society-of-chemistry-award
Dr Dylan Williams, of our Department of Chemistry, is the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award winner for 2018. Dr Williams has worked on new ways of teaching chemistry at university since 2007.
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Study shows genetic link to fatal health condition could aid future treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/study-shows-genetic-link-to-fatal-health-condition-could-aid-future-treatment
Thousands of lives could be saved every year after it was discovered a fatal cardiovascular condition could be linked to four genes, research has found.