Search

9642 results for: ‘map’

• New community archaeology project in Market Bosworth receives Lottery funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/new-community-archaeology-project-in-market-bosworth-receives-lottery-funding

  Bosworth Links - a new community archaeology project that provides residents the opportunity to carry out excavations in order to learn more about their town’s history has received a grant of £29,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

• Study shows regularly standing up helps prevent Type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/study-shows-standing-up-helps-prevent-type-2-diabetes

  Women who have an inactive daily routine and are at high risk of Type 2 diabetes can help prevent the condition by regularly standing up or walking for five minutes at a time, a new study has found.

• Insights into visual supersense provided by new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities

  An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.

• National Student Survey reveals rise for Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/national-student-survey-reveals-rise-for-leicester

  Efforts made by the University of Leicester to enhance the student experience in response to student feedback has led to its overall student satisfaction rising to 88%, the results of the latest National Student Survey reveal today.

• Pokmon Go helps highlight Leicesters inventive approach to communications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/pokemon-go-helps-to-highlight-leicesters-inventive-approach-to-communications

  The Pokémon Go craze has helped millions of people around the world to ease the Type 2 diabetes burden by walking and catching digital monsters. Now, the viral app has helped our University snag an accolade for its 'inventive' approach to communications.

• Prestigious archaeology prize for Leicester graduate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/prestigious-archaeology-prize-for-leicester-graduate

  The Association for Environmental Archaeology has announced that Leicester alumna Nora Battermann has won their John Evans Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. This year’s winners of the John Evans Prizes were announced at the Association’s annual conference in Rome.

• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• New observations reveal Jupiters Great Red Spot as mysterious energy source

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-observations-reveal-jupiter2019s-great-red-spot-as-mysterious-energy-source

  Researchers from the University of Leicester and Boston University’s (BU) Center for Space Physics report today in Nature that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet’s upper atmosphere to the unusually high values...

• Expert comment Tony Blair is right Prime Ministers must be allowed to take difficult decisions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-comment-tony-blair-is-right-prime-ministers-must-be-allowed-to-take-difficult-decisions

  The Iraq war was a ‘catastrophic error’ and shows us that going to war should always be the last resort, according to Dr Robert Dover from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• Research finds no association between weekend staffing levels and patient mortality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/research-finds-no-association-between-the-2018weekend-effect2019-and-patient-mortality

  New research involving researchers from our University has found no association between weekend senior doctor staffing levels and mortality, questioning whether increasing senior doctor weekend working would impact mortality rates.