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Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown
The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.
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Jewel’s Museum Studies Placement blog 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/09/05/jewels-museum-studies-placement-blog-2/
Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on September 5, 2024 As I write this blog on 3 September 2024, I find myself in the final week of my placement.
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Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/hawaii-coral-geoscience
Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs.
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Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016 Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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Professor Effie Law
https://le.ac.uk/research/luminaries/professor-effie-law
Professor Effie Law, Professor in Human-Computer Interaction is pioneering exciting, interesting and informative ways to use video games in education.
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New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower
A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.
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Experts to discuss exclusion in gaming underrepresentation and future of industry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/experts-to-discuss-exclusion-in-gaming-underrepresentation-and-future-of-industry
Exclusionary aspects of the gaming industry and ways in which the industry can be more inclusive in the future will be highlighted at an event organised by our University on Thursday 28 September.
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George McTurk
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/george-mcturk
We are sad to report the death of George McTurk, a man who served the University for nigh on 40 years in the Geology Department and Pre-Clinical Sciences in the Medical School from 1963 to 2003.
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Equality and Diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/11/29/equality-and-diversity-an-example-of-socratic-questioning/
Socratic Questioning is a useful tool to further develop a critical analysis. Here it is used to consider how Equality and Diversity might be considered in a learning and teaching context.