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• Improving air quality in Nairobi

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/air-quality-nairobi

  Poor urban air quality is a major development issue globally, placing a huge burden on public health.

• Samworth Foundation provides £1.5m boost for robotic-assisted surgery at Leicester’s hospitals

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

  The number of cancer patients who can benefit from pioneering robot-assisted surgery is set to quadruple thanks to a £1.5million grant from the Samworth Foundation, the Samworth family charity

• Leicester scientists help uncover Jupiter’s secrets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/jupiter-image

  Scientists who revealed stunning views of Jupiter with the new £10 billion James Webb Space Telescope hope more planets will soon give up their secrets.

• Medical student produces clinical anatomy app

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/medical-student-produces-clinical-anatomy-app

  A medical student, working with a local app design agency, has produced an iOS application to teach clinical anatomy to fellow students, junior doctors and healthcare professionals.

• University honours distinguished figures in the arts

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/university-honours-distinguished-figures-in-the-arts

  An award-winning theatrical actor and the former Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, will be honoured at the University's Degree Ceremonies on 23 January.

• Steve Rippington

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/steve-rippington

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Steve Rippington, Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, on 25 May 2024. Dan Smith writes: Steve was known to many in the former Department of Geology.

• Research suggests bowel cancer medication could help combat earlyonset Parkinsons disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-suggests-bowel-cancer-medication-could-help-combat-early-onset-parkinson2019s-disease

  People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease could potentially benefit from taking a medication used to treat certain forms of cancer, according to new research by Leicester scientists and funded by the Medical Research Council.

• One in three high blood pressure patients failing to take medication study suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/one-in-three-high-blood-pressure-patients-failing-to-take-medication-study-suggests

  One in three people who suffer from high blood pressure are failing to take medication as prescribed by their healthcare professionals, a new study led by our University has suggested.

• Arch Street Prison: A Prison without Convicts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/10/arch-street-prison-a-prison-without-convicts/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 10, 2015 By Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan.

• Indigeneity and Carcerality: Thinking about reserves, prisons, and settler colonialism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/27/indigeneity-and-carcerality-thinking-about-reserves-prisons-and-settler-colonialism/

  Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on October 27, 2016 In 1871, a group of men – hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River – met with anthropologist Horatio Hale in the town of Brantford, Ontario.