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• The stamp: a classic object in the development of education?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/stamp

  Read the article "The stamp: a classic object in the development of education?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin

  A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage that can ultimately lead to cancer.

• Kinchega Archaeological Research Project

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/kinchega-archaeological-research-project

  Project page for the University of Leicester's Kinchega Archaeological Research Project

• COVID-19 treatment trialed at Leicester’s Hospitals shown to reduce deaths in sickest patients by one-fifth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/covid-recovery

  John, a self-employed roofer, was approached by a research nurse to take part in the RECOVERY trial, where he was assigned the Regeneron monoclonal antibody combination. The treatment was delivered through an intravenous drip, which took about an hour to enter his body.

• New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gibbons-twycross-genetic-endangered

  A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction

• Applied Linguistics MOOC

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-applied-linguistics/2020

  Language teachers, forensic linguistics, speech therapists and translators all work within the realm of applied linguistics. If you’re a lover of language, and want to know more about how it functions in our everyday lives, this online course is for you.

• The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/21/the-closed-prison-and-the-memory-of-everywhere-but-here/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.

• Role models Why allwhite isnt alright

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/role-models-why-all-white-isnt-alright

  A new research project involving the University of Leicester will explore the importance of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) role models in developing a more diverse workforce.

• Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.

• Grants and awards

  https://le.ac.uk/genetic-epidemiology/grants-and-awards

  Explore the grants and awards for Genetic Epidemiology research at the University of Leicester.