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Leicester research team receives 25k to continue investigations into rare disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-research-team-receives-ps25k-to-continue-investigations-into-rare-disease
A team of scientists and clinicians from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (formerly Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit) have received a cheque for £25,000 to continue its ground breaking research into the cardiovascular disease, Spontaneous...
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Hub for African Thought
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/hub-for-african-thought/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.
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Mapping project reveals 50 years of land use change along the coast
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/mapping-project-reveals-50-years-of-land-use-change-along-the-coast
One of the biggest mapping projects of the 20th century has been repeated fifty years on by the National Trust to understand how the way that land is used along the coast has changed since 1965.
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An architects view of the Centre for Medicine project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/an-architect2019s-view-of-the-centre-for-medicine-project
A leading architectural magazine has run a lengthy feature on the University’s Centre for Medicine project, detailing the array of innovative features that contributed to the building’s title of largest Passivhaus building in the UK.
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Autograph Letter Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/autograph-letter-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 The LSE digital library is releasing its autograph letter collection online. The collection contains over 5,000 letters dating from 1851 to 1975.
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Levelling Up - Maths
https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/students/levelling-up-maths
Get more information on how your data is handled when signing up for the AccessLeicester: Maths - Levelling up programme.
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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New way to determine protection of Men B vaccine against different strains
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/new-way-to-determine-protection-of-men-b-vaccine-against-different-strains
Researchers at Leicester and the Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine, Bexsero®, against different strains that cause meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia.
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Medical Biosciences (Biochemistry) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-biochemistry-mbiolsci/2027
Almost all of the biggest, most impactful breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of disease start with molecular-level analysis of biomolecules.
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PlanetarySeminar: Python tutorial for space physics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/14/planetaryseminar-python-tutorial-for-space-physics/
Posted by mkj13 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 14 January 2021 Later this month, on Wednesday January 27, Dr Angeline Burrell will be presenting a virtual seminar titled “Python tutorial for space physics”. The seminar will be held over Teams at 14:00 ( click here to join ) .