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• Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens

  Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.

• Music is in the genes University staff to play at charity gig

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/music-is-in-the-genes-university-staff-to-play-at-charity-gig

  Staff from the Department of Genetics will be performing at a charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The Histones, who formed last year to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary, will be appearing at the Shed in Leicester on Friday 26 June.

• Leicester academic Professor Mark Jobling to chart the evolution of individual identification at Galton Institute conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-academic-professor-mark-jobling-to-chart-the-evolution-of-individual-identification-at-galton-institute-conference

  Professor Mark Jobling from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology will be giving a talk at the Galton Institute conference on 15 November - charting the evolution of individual identification from its earliest inception via fingerprints in 1892, through to the...

• Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

• June Book Group: A Handful of Dust

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/06/16/handfulofdust/

  Summary of the Waugh Book Groups discussion of A Handful of Dust in June 2014.

• The destruction of Old St Paul’s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...

• Leicester scientists discover ‘Star Wars’ planet

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/leicester-scientists-discover-star-wars-planet

  Scientists from the University of Leicester has revealed for the first time that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings - similar to the planet Tatooine in Star Wars.

• Matthew Graham-Brown

  https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/people/previous-researchers/matthew-graham-brown

  Biography of Early Career Researcher

• Students lightbulb moment helps capture stunning images at supersonic speeds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/student2019s-lightbulb-moment-helps-capture-stunning-images-at-supersonic-speeds

  A Leicester Engineering student has taken his handyman skills to a new level by repairing a piece of legacy teaching equipment using materials sourced at his local DIY store.

• New Leicester education centre to provide opportunities for city’s young people

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/intouni

  Young people in Leicester will have a greater chance of realising their ambitions thanks to a new education centre in the city.