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  • New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins

    A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.

  • University of Leicester celebrates School of Education’s 75th anniversary

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/education

    University of Leicester’s School of Education has hit a landmark anniversary, celebrating its 75th year.  The School was founded in 1946, welcoming its first group of 19 students, most of whom were ex-military personnel.

  • New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

    X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

  • The necessary discomfort of soft intelligence

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/10/07/the-necessary-discomfort-of-soft-intelligence/

    Posted by Graham Martin in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on October 7, 2015 It’s comforting to have hard facts and figures so that we can feel like we know exactly what went wrong and what went right.

  • The Spanish Silver Age (1900 to 1950): A Revolution in Language

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp2042

    Module code: SP2042 This module focuses on how different cultural texts (one play, a selection of poems, and one novel) respond to the changes and challenges posed by the experience of modernity within the Spanish context in the period between 1900 and 1950.

  • Fieldwork Skills for Professional Geographers

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy1026

    Module code: GY1026 In this module you will gain basic skills that are critical to conducting fieldwork, including keeping a field notebook, observation skills, collecting, collating and presenting different types of data.

  • Alumnus shortlisted for top sci-fi writing prize

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/alumnus-shortlisted-for-top-sci-fi-writing-prize

    An alumnus and former staff member at the University is on the shortlist for one of world's most prestigious sci-fi writing prizes, the Philip K Dick Award.

  • Two different schools of thought discuss light

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/two-different-schools-of-thought-discuss-light

    An event which examines the relationship between science and religion and their alternative views on the subject of light will take place on Wednesday 18 November at The Gatehouse Chaplaincy Centre, University Rd from 5.30pm – 8.00pm.

  • Sami Zubaida

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

  • Metals in dust and soils and health

    https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/our-research/metals-in-dust-and-soils

    The aim of this project is to investigate exposures to metals from soils and dust and assess potential health risks.

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