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• What our students say

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/presessional/why-leicester/our-students

  Hear more from students who have studied with us in the ELTU on the Presessional English Programme at Leicester.

• Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns

  Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur

• Educational policy and practice: how ‘evidence-based’ can or should it be?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/06/12/500/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2017 ‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about...

• Laura Gray

  https://le.ac.uk/people/laura-gray

  The academic profile of Professor Laura Gray, Professor of Medical Statistics, Departmental Research Director, Co-Lead Biostatistics Research Group at University of Leicester

• Cooking Inauthentically: An Experiment with Flaounes – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/07/cooking-inauthentically-an-experiment-with-flaounes/

  Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of cooking flaounes, a celebration Easter food from Cyprus, the challenge of finding "authentic" ingredients and the sense of occasion created by making a celebration food.

• The father of DNA fingerprinting pays tribute to a team effort

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/dna-technicians

  The man who discovered DNA genetic fingerprinting has paid tribute to two of his former University of Leicester colleagues who played a key role in the scientific breakthrough.

• Blood clots during COVID-19 may be a cause of ongoing cognitive problems

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/brain-fog

  High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog’, giving a major clue as to one cause of their symptoms: blood clots

• Leicester to lead development of space instrument

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-to-lead-development-of-space-instrument

  A space mission called SMILE (Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) which is a joint collaboration between scientists from the UK, Europe, Canada, the US and China, has received the go-ahead for an initial study phase this summer by the European Space Agency...

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Representations in Marketing Require more Attention to Context.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2023/02/22/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-representations-in-marketing-require-more-attention-to-context/

  Brands can play an important role in fostering inclusion in our increasingly diverse societies. 38% of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by Adobe, said that they are more likely to purchase products and services from brands that show diversity in their advertisements.