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• Researchers develop new genetic tool to identify people at risk of coronary heart disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/researchers-develop-new-genetic-tool-to-identify-people-at-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease

  A new genetic risk score that could help to identify individuals at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) much earlier and potentially improve its prevention has been developed by a team including a University of Leicester Professor in research part-funded by the British Heart...

• Donald K Jones

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/donald-k-jones

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of Don Jones, who taught in the School of Education between 1972 and 1990. Donald K Jones was born in Manchester on 16 February 1933.

• Beginnings; Queer Diasporas: a new research project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/beginnings-queer-diasporas-a-new-research-project/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 I started work on my new project, Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent , based at the School of English, University of Leicester, in September 2014, after...

• 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

• A practitioner’s musings on theory and Quality Improvement – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/07/08/theory-and-quality-improvement/

  As a PhD student and practising physiotherapist, Emma Jones is perfectly placed to consider the ways in which academic theory, often considered remote and confusing, can be used in day-to-day clinical practice.

• Tehmina Kazi reading and Muslim LGBT activism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2016/06/29/tehmina-kazi-reading-and-muslim-lgbt-activism/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 29, 2016 As the final event of the Queering Islam events series for 2015-2016, Tehmina Kazi , the Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy , visited us at the University of Leicester to do a...

• Turi King

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/turi-king

  Canadian Turi started as an archaeologist, studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, then switched to Genetics when she came to Leicester as a postgraduate.

• Student life in the 1980s: what can we learn from Students’ Union handbooks?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/01/05/student-life-in-the-1980s-what-can-we-learn-from-students-union-handbooks/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on January 5, 2024 Guest post by Jess Pascal, student volunteer. Hello, my name is Jess Pascal and I have been volunteering in the archives for the last two months.

• Making space accessible

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/space-accessible

  We enable spacecraft power generation and thermal management by developing power systems that enable electricity generation from the rare element americium.

• University professor joins stars in cancer fight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/university-professor-joins-stars-in-cancer-fight

  A leading scientist from our University has teamed up with Cancer  Research UK and Channel 4 to launch a celebrity-backed fund-raiser.