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• First Cowrie Scholar excited to shine ‘positive light’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/cowrie

  The first recipient of a Cowrie Foundation Scholarship at the University of Leicester designed to provide opportunities for talented Black British students has described her excitement at becoming a role model to a new generation of students.

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund records

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/naacp-legal-defense-fund-records/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 A major resource documenting the funding and activities of the NAACP fighting for Black civil rights in 20th Century America.

• Workshops led by ROOTS Foundation

  https://le.ac.uk/anglophone-caribbean/outputs/roots-foundation-workshops

  Description of youth spoken word workshops led by ROOTS Foundation for the AHRC-funded collaborative project 'Representing Gender-Based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean'.

• Research shows higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death for those living in deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and twin pregnancies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/stillbirth

  People living in the UK’s most deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and those with twin pregnancies all continue to experience higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death according to new research from the MBRRACE-UK team at the University of Leicester.

• Artificial intelligence can better predict future risk for heart attack patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/artificial-intelligence-heart-attack-predict

  A landmark study led by University of Leicester experts' has shown that artificial intelligence can better predict how doctors should treat patients following a heart attack

• Coaching

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/06/13/coaching/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on June 13, 2016 “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are”. It would appear that at the moment the world is full of coaches; no, not the type you travel in.

• Catalogues, Websites & Digital Tables

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/09/18/catalogues-websites-digital-tables/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on September 18, 2019 Nidhi presenting in front of the large screen   In the summer of 2019 the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project has hosted two Museums Studies work placement students, Feifei Qin and Nidhi...

• Reproduction and gene shuffling in malaria parasites: how does it work?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/malaria

  Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control malaria transmission.

• Academics contribute to Global Informality Project

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/academics-contribute-to-global-informality-project

  Researchers from our School of History, Politics and International Relations have contributed to the Global Informality Project, led by Professor Alena V.

• Researchers create novel compound targeting melanoma cells

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/researchers-create-novel-compound-targeting-melanoma-cells

  An international team of researchers, including a Professor from the University of Leicester, has developed a novel compound that successfully inhibits growth of melanoma cells by targeting specific epigenetic modifying proteins in these cells.