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No smoking matter 15 cigarettes in 75 minutes in a car could render you unconscious
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/no-smoking-matter-smoking-for-75-minutes-in-a-car-could-render-you-unconscious
It was announced earlier this month that drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their cars from October if they are carrying children as passengers.
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University praised for outstanding success by global indicator of research excellence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-praised-for-outstanding-success
Our University has been cited for its outstanding performance in a global ranking of world-leading universities published this month.
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Tigers talents to train University rugby club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/tigers-talents-to-train-university-rugby-club
Two Leicester Tigers players will coach our Men’s Rugby Union club team during the 2016/17 season. Team Leicester is now looking to extend their unbeaten Varsity record to five years after appointing Lachlan McCaffrey and Matt Smith as coaches for the forthcoming season.
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Spotlight on Leicesters highflying research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/spotlight-on-leicester2019s-high-flying-research
New environmental research from Leicester is featured in the latest Energy Research Accelerator communications. Funded by Innovate UK, the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) is a Midlands Innovation initiative.
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27000 project to preserve Leicesters postwar memories
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/ps27-000-project-to-preserve-leicesters-post-war-memories
The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA), based in the Centre for Urban History at our University, has received £27,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project that will record memories of the period 1945-1962 in Leicester and Leicestershire.
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Chilcot How the Iraq war has led to a rise in extremism and fatally undermined the European Union
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/chilcot-how-the-iraq-war-has-led-to-a-rise-in-extremism-and-2018fatally-undermined2019-the-european-union
The Iraq war still scars us today, leading to a rise in extremism and ‘fatally undermining’ the European Union, according to Dr Robert Dover (pictured) from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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Local meeting of the minds leads to creative triumph
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/local-meeting-of-the-minds-leads-to-creative-triumph
Following the successful Journeys in Translation event hosted by the University's Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) last year, a group of translating students at our University have worked closely with local poet Pam Thompson to provide their...
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2015 in news - a selection of key stories from across the year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/2015-in-review-key-stories-from-across-the-year
Now that 2015 has come to a close, catch up with some of the key University news stories from the past year.
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Publications and resources
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan/publications
Articles I. Y. Tyukin, T. Tyukina, D. van Helden, Z. Zheng, E. M. Mirkes, O.J. Sutton, Q. Zhou, A. N. Gorban, P. Allison, 2024 (Jan.) Weakly Supervised Learners for Correction of AI Errors with Provable Performance Guarantees, arXiv. 2402.0089. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.
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Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust denial and museums
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2019/01/27/holocaust-memorial-day-holocaust-denial-and-museums/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 27, 2019 The camp gate at Buchenwald. Photo: Guido Radig [CC BY 3.