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                    Academic receives prestigious engineering fellowshiphttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/academic-receives-prestigious-engineering-fellowship Professor Stephen Garrett from the Departments of Engineering and Mathematics, is among seven researchers to have received a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering this year. 
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                    Society and Crisis Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluations of Societal WellBeinghttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/society-and-crisis-quantitative-and-qualitative-evaluations-of-societal-well-being The Department of Sociology hosted a one day symposium on 4 June focused on measuring societal well-being during current recession. 
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                    Link between inherited DNA sequences and heart disease identifiedhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/link-between-inherited-dna-sequences-and-heart-disease-identified A study to examine recessively inherited genome-wide DNA sequences has for the first time discovered a potential link with Britain’s biggest killer – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). 
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                    Chinese link with local renal unit builds on University initiativeshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/chinese-link-with-local-renal-unit-builds-on-university-initiatives Links with a nephrology unit in Nantong China developed by University researchers have now led to Leicester’s Hospitals’ John Walls Renal Unit becoming a “sister renal centre” as part of the International Society of Nephrology Sister Renal Center (SRC) Programme. 
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                    Strategy and objectiveshttps://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/about/strategy-objectives The overarching strategy of the Leicester BHF Accelerator is to generate new knowledge of the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. 
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                    Eventshttps://le.ac.uk/natural-sciences/news/events Browse Natural Sciences events at the University of Leicester. 
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                    MESSENGERhttps://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/about/messenger There have been two previous missions to Mercury; NASA’s Mariner 10 mission, which completed three flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, and MESSENGER. MESSENGER was the first mission to orbit Mercury. 
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                    University involved in reaching out to South Asian new mumshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/university-involved-in-reaching-out-to-south-asian-new-mums In Maternal Mental Health Week, a new project, ROSHNI2, aims to reach out to South Asian mums in Leicester, and support them to share their concerns with others or seek specialist help. 
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                    Leicester scientist discusses BepiColombo mission to Mercuryhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-professor-discusses-bepicolombo-mission-to-mercury Professor Emma Bunce, Principal Investigator of the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) - one of the main instruments on the upcoming BepiColombo Mercury mission which was designed and built by Leicester researchers, has been interviewed about the mission for BBC... 
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                    Banning of burquinis is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship expert suggestshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/banning-of-2018burquinis2019-is-a-step-towards-depriving-muslim-women-of-equal-citizenship-expert-suggests The recent banning of the ‘burquini’ in Cannes is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship, according to Dr Saeeda Shah (pictured) from the School of Education.