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  • Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart condition

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/tavi-results

    Leicester researchers have shown, in a ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), how a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery.

  • The Story of Pulque Part 3: Ritual and Power in Aztec Mexico – University of Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/07/03/the-story-of-pulque-part-3-ritual-and-power-in-aztec-mexico/

    Project Principal Investigator Deborah Toner describes the importance of pulque in cultural, religious and political terms during the Aztec period in Mexico. Third part of the story of pulque

  • Researchers develop new genetic tool to identify people at risk of coronary heart disease

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/researchers-develop-new-genetic-tool-to-identify-people-at-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease

    A new genetic risk score that could help to identify individuals at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) much earlier and potentially improve its prevention has been developed by a team including a University of Leicester Professor in research part-funded by the British Heart...

  • Donald K Jones

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/donald-k-jones

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of Don Jones, who taught in the School of Education between 1972 and 1990. Donald K Jones was born in Manchester on 16 February 1933.

  • University professor joins stars in cancer fight

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/university-professor-joins-stars-in-cancer-fight

    A leading scientist from our University has teamed up with Cancer  Research UK and Channel 4 to launch a celebrity-backed fund-raiser.

  • Surveillance and Power – University of Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/21/the-protection-of-knowledge-as-the-production-of-ignorance/

    Posted by Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014 Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be...

  • Queering Islam: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • “So, can we say ‘skills’?”

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/

    Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018   As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.

  • Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns

    Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur

  • Peter Jackson

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/peter-jackson

    The University has learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Peter Jackson, one of the longest serving members of our academic staff. A funeral service for Professor Jackson will be held at 12.

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