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• One in three high blood pressure patients failing to take medication study suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/one-in-three-high-blood-pressure-patients-failing-to-take-medication-study-suggests

  One in three people who suffer from high blood pressure are failing to take medication as prescribed by their healthcare professionals, a new study led by our University has suggested.

• Leicester spearheads event to encourage more medical students from non-traditional backgrounds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-spearheads-event-to-encourage-more-medical-students-from-non-traditional-backgrounds

  The Universities of Leicester and Nottingham are spearheading efforts to boost recruitment into the study of medicine by focusing on locations where young people have traditionally not applied for the subject.

• University involved in new trial to fight cancer caused by asbestos

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-involved-in-new-trial-to-fight-cancer-caused-by-asbestos

  Patients with a hard-to-treat type of cancer are being given new hope in a ground-breaking clinical trial.

• Leicester experts support Singapore in diabetes fight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-experts-support-singapore-in-diabetes-fight

  Expertise in preventing and treating Type 2 diabetes developed in Leicester will be used in Singapore’s 'war on diabetes'.

• Event to showcase leading tuberculosis research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/event-to-showcase-leading-tuberculosis-research

  World TB Day, falling on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and to promote efforts to eliminate the disease.

• Lecture series launched in memory of eminent microbiologist

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/lecture-series-launched-in-memory-of-eminent-microbiologist

  A pioneering cellular microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris will deliver the inaugural lecture of the University of Leicester’s Dorothy Jones Lecture Series on Friday 17 March 2017 from 12 noon.

• First prize in poetry competition for Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/first-prize-in-poetry-competition-for-leicester-academic

  A University of Leicester academic has won first prize in a poetry competition. Dr Sue Dymoke, Reader in Education in the School of Education took part in the Nottingham Historic Green Spaces Poetry Competition.

• Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms

  Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.

• Leicester students crack mystery of Rudolph’s red nose

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/rudolph-redshift

  Of all Santa Claus’ reindeer, Rudolph is best known for his bright red nose. But just how fast would he need to travel for his nose to shine its famous scarlet colour? Students at the University of Leicester have discovered the answer.

• Local students begin to take their LEAP into University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university

  On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).