University of Leicester in the Media for January
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- Professor Martin Gill (Criminology) featured in a one hour phone in on Radio 5 Live on 27.1.05 re violence in schools.
- Tania Ruiz (Physics) was on Radio Leicester talking about iScience and engaging women in science.
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The Statesman, Calcutta, India - Bollywood Bingo
...The University of Leicester, another PIO-dominated town, touted as Britain's Bollywood capital, has started a course on Bollywood...
The Japan Times - Personality Profile By VIVIENNE KENRICK
...A graduate of the University of Leicester, where she studied German, she said: "I met David there, as he was also studying German, and we married on my...
This is Leicestershire
...in our lifetimes. Dr Sean Lawrence, of Leicester University's physics and astronomy department, studies satellite data to see how weather and climate change. He was very cautious about the new 11C figure, He said: "If it did happen, the situation would be unimaginably horrendous. If the temperature does rise that much, the polar ice caps will melt.
Times Online - Sunday Times
...Julian Boon, a senior forensic psychologist at Leicester University who had been involved in the case of Dr Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer. A flamboyant former racing-car driver who relishes personal publicity, Boon is the son of the founder of the Mills & Boon romantic publishing empire. A few years ago he featured in...
This is Leicestershire
...research. The lecture will take place at the University of Leicester's Ken Edwards lecture theatre at 6pm, on February 10.
This is Money - Choose wisely if you go for broker
... Richard, 61, who is a groundsman/coach for the cricket team at Leicester University, says: 'It was easy to make money on the stock market in the Eighties, but ...
Scotsman - Last Duties for Britain's Top Police Officer
... police in 1962. After quickly winning promotion, he was awarded a scholarship to read law at Leicester University. As he rose through ...
ASMAG.COM - Globle Security Web - Industrial News
...which is a "spin out" company from the University of Leicester, the British Security Industry Association, ASIS International and The Security Institute. "Most research in the security industry is focused on broad trends within the industry and, in particular, the economic value of the industry and its constituent sectors," said Dermot Grace...
Gulf Daily News - Manama Bahrain - Communications manager named
...She has a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a Master's degree in mass communication, specialising in media studies, from Leicester University (UK)...
EducationGuardian.co.uk - Why are there no Brits in space?
...Close, Oxford physicist, Professor Ken Pounds, an astrophysicist from Leicester and Dr ... So at a time when university science departments are closing through...
Falkland Islands News Network - Stanley
...requirements. Dr. Ruttie, who is a Professor at the University of Leicester,
will be assisting with the identification of the casualties. He...
This is Leicestershire
...which has housed students from the University of Leicester since the 1970s, will sell for millions of pounds. It is one of five Knighton properties being sold by the University - the others are Latimer House, in Carisbrooke Road, a residence in Elms Road and two properties in Knighton Drive. University chiefs say they have put the ...
This is Leicestershire
...a new study. Prof Ray Bull, of the University of Leicester, headed a working party which looked at how effective polygraphs are. The tests measure bodily reactions such as sweating or changes in heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. The idea behind them is that if someone is lying, their body's reaction will give them away. The ...
This is Leicestershire
...Huygens missions. Now, a scientist at the University of Leicester has been asked to look at whether the UK is ready to undertake a manned space mission. Ken Pounds, professor of space physics, has been asked by the Royal Astronomical Society to weigh up the pros and cons of sending Britons into space. He will work with Professor Frank Close...
Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi,India - British expert to help identify tsunami victims
...Guy Rutty, a professor at the University of Leicester, has joined a team of international pathologists. He will spend two weeks...
Times Online - Comment
...School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester ...
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Research | Humans or robots? UK ponders future of space flight
...Ken Pounds, an astrophysicist from the University of Leicester and Dr John Dudeney, deputy director of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge - to weigh up the scientific arguments for and against human space flight and report back when they have reached a conclusion. The question will become increasingly important in the next year or so...
Nature.com - White House to scrap Hubble?
... "Hubble remains the primary source of new information about the Universe," says Ken Pounds, an astronomer from the University of Leicester, UK. ...
Student Newspaper - Don't be a bad sport
... level sport is more dangerous than mining, working on an oil rig or deep sea fishing, according to reports published by the University of Leicester. ...
The Times - Doctors fear cuts in university training
... pounds of research funding, all but the highestrated university departments have ... departments have closed in medical schools in London, Liverpool and Leicester...
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EducationGuardian.co.uk - Doctors warn of 'crisis' in medical training
Medical News Today - Medical specialities face crisis as research funding squeezed
Guardian - Humans or robots? UK ponders future of space flight
... wise men of science - Professor Frank Close, an Oxford University physicist, Professor Ken Pounds, an astrophysicist from the University of Leicester and Dr ...
Wired News
...(for him to win it)," said Philip Lynch at the University of Leicester. WILL BROWN MAKE IT TO NO.10? The question remains who the next prime minister will be. All but one of 19 analysts who answered the question said Chancellor of the Excheckr Gordon Brown was the most likely successor to Blair, despite hostile relations between the top two ...
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icBerkshire - Pupils to watch play with graphic sex and violence
...pupils from local schools and students from Leicester University. But religious leaders, councillors and residents have attacked the Kangaroo Court company for a production which features full-frontal nudity and scenes of cannibalism and male rape. Protester Simon Jones describes the play as "disgusting and debaucherous" and told the...
The Observer | Review | 'Everyone thinks I'm this monster, but I'm not'
...City Grammar School, read history at Leicester University and thought of doing a thesis on peasant emancipation in 18th-century Prussia. But he took a summer job in the picture library of Agnew's, and then he got a job at the Brighton Museum and the ICA, where in 1974 he organised a very influential exhibition of contemporary German ...
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Guardian
This is Leicestershire
...to get a woman's touch. Tania Ruiz, of the University of Leicester, has been given a grant to put on a wide range of events, activities and services for female staff and students. The manager of the institution's centre for interdisciplinary science, was awarded more than 14,000 from the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering...
EducationGuardian.co.uk - Science departments 'biased against women'
... But Tania Ruiz, the head of a new drive by Leicester University to support women in science, said that men and women needed to be taught science differently. ...
Totalrugbyleague.com - League Talk
...Manchester Knights, University of Leicester, Worksop Sharks...
IDC - Analyst Profile Detailed
...degree in law and an MSc in Marketing from the University of Leicester...
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Science departments 'biased against women'
...But Tania Ruiz, the head of a new drive by Leicester University to support women in science, said that men and women needed to be taught science differently. Some universities' teaching methods did not support women, she said. Ms Ruiz, who herself studied astrophysics at Harvard, said: "From my experience at Harvard I found that the way I learned...
NASA Washington - Swift Mission Images the Birth of a Black Hole
...the University of Leicester, England...
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... A team from Leicester University in the UK say that genetics plays an important role in the cause of psoriasis, a skin disease, that usually appears as red, scaly patches. Researchers demonstrated that in a fragment of DNA contained in Chromosome 6 there are genes susceptible to psoriasis ....
This is Leicestershire
... settling in the pack for the early stages, the Leicester University student decided that she felt "pretty good" and simply wound up the pace to gradually drop her rivals. Halfway around the first lap, she had already built a significant lead, with the chase being led by English Masters veterans Nealon and Ramsey. And, from there, she just kept up ...
Canada.com - Sports - Soccer
... Malcolm, a lecturer on sports and business at Leicester University in England, says experience has shown that clubs need to diversify their sources of income. Staging music concerts or other sports at the venue can help offset a club's costs, for example. "If the stadiums were built solely on the basis that crowds would increase, that's ...
Also at: The Globe and Mail: Portuguese Euro 2004 stadiums stand empty
SI.com - Soccer - After Euro '04 success, Portuguese soccer struggling
FOX Sports - Seven months on, Portugal struggles with low attendance
... Dominic Malcolm, a lecturer on sports and business at Leicester University in England, says experience has shown that clubs need to diversify their sources of ...
CNN.com - Transcripts
... until Sir Alec Jeffreys, a professor at the University of Leicester in Britain, literally stumbled onto the key. PROF. SIR ALEC JEFFREYS, DEPT. OF GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM: I discovered DNA fingerprinting entirely by accident. We were just having fun, asking some really vague, basic and simple questions about human DNA ...
This is Exeter
... The tests were carried out for a study by Leicester University with a doctor visiting the Clements at their home in Colyton, near Seaton. Mrs Clements said: "We volunteered for it and it was a very small survey number. While our levels were higher than normal, they were not dangerous but they shouldn't be there at all." Highlighted by the ...
This is Leicestershire
...with boulders. The space analysis centre at Leicester University has been receiving the results from the probe. Stan Cowley, a professor of solar planetary physics at the university, said: "It has been an absolutely phenomenal achievement. "After the disappointment of Beagle 2, this is just the boost everyone needed, and it reminds the Americans...
This is Leicestershire
...fair is being held for city students. University of Leicester students can meet up with employers and charities to find out more about jobs they may be interested in after finishing their courses. The fair will take place from Monday, January 31 to Friday, February 4, in the Sparkenhoe and Goscote room in the Charles Wilson Building...
The Observer | Cash | Graduating with a degree of insolvency
Michelle Roberts, who recently graduated from Leicester University with a combined degree in English literature and art history, admits to being 'quite terrible with money'. 'I am now ashamed to say I kept splurging - on going out, on going shopping, on going skiing, snowboarding, holidaying.There was a part of me that knew it was wrong...
This is Leicestershire
...probe of Titan's surface are being sent to the University of Leicester's space analysis centre. Stan Cowley, a professor of solar planetary physics at Leicester University, said: "It's such an exciting project and, if everything goes to plan, it will tell us so much more than what we know at the moment about that part of the universe...
New Scientist - Fate of Beagle will remain a mystery
...says Mark Sims, the mission manager from the University of Leicester in the UK. The evidence for a thinner than expected atmosphere comes from the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which ...
New Scientist - Lost in space
Mark Sims, the lander project manager at the University of Leicester in the UK. "There have been many successes." There is even talk of a second attempt in 2007. But this optimism hides another side of the Beagle 2 story. With the clarity of hindsight, the rosy glow is beginning to fade from the tiny Mars lander. Last month, the ...
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Woman on board
... Birch-Sampson recently submitted her dissertation to the University of Leicester, from where she is awaiting her results to attain a MSc degree in health ...
Mirror.co.uk - Can Beat the Lie Test
... Professor Ray Bull of Leicester University, who chaired the working party, said: "We must not deceive ourselves into thinking there will ever be an error-free ...
Science Daily - Observation Of Material Circling A Supermassive Black Hole
... instrument (European Photon Imaging Camera) used to make these observations was built by four countries, led by the University of Leicester where Professor ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111182222.htm
News24 - Nasa hunts black holes
... telescope built by Penn State University, the University of Leicester and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera; and an ultraviolet optical telescope, made by Penn State and University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Swift should begin its hunt for gamma ray bursts by January and erase some of the mystery surrounding these ...
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1624887,00.html
This is Leicestershire
... a professor of solar planetary physics at Leicester University, is one of five local scientists working on Cassini. He said: "It's a very exciting time. We don't know whether it will splashdown or whether it will land with a bang, but we hope it will survive." Huygens is currently shut down, but will be "woken up" when it reaches 620 miles ...
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132697&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132405&home=yes&contentPK=11642449
London Review of Books | Stephen Sedley : Short Cuts
... stumbled on exactly 20 years ago at Leicester University by Alec Jeffreys. Although the science is itself still being debated for example, in relation to the number of features that need to be shared by the sample and the suspect in order to reduce the risk of error to an acceptably minute level, and in relation to the true margin of error ...
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n02/sedl0.html
Guardian - Music to drive away tube louts
... Adrian North, a psychologist at Leicester University, said there was evidence from nightclubs, doctors' surgeries and dentists' waiting rooms that playing ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1389138,00.html
This is Leicestershire
... and funding at his inaugural lecture at the University of Leicester. It is free and will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday in the Ken Edwards Building ...
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132691&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132428&contentPK=11619133
This is Leicestershire
... The X-ray telescope, which was developed by the University of Leicester, also discovered its first gamma-ray burst afterglow soon after. The telescope was created to find and track the bursts, which could hold vital clues to how the first stars were born. Gamma- ray bursts are the biggest explosions in the universe and are believed to signal ...
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132691&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132428&contentPK=11623682
Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Northampton Today
... to begin the four-year part-time course at the University of Leicester's Northampton campus in Barrack Road today, before they progress to a career in counselling when they qualify. The course's director, Dr Tony Priest, said: "There is a real need for people trained in this form of counselling. "The number of people with drug and alcohol problems ...
http://www.northamptontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=255&ArticleID=917032
This is Leicestershire
... genetic profiling by Sir Alec Jeffreys, at the University of Leicester, in 1984. Leicester is the home of Walkers crisps. The home of the humble pork pie is Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, approximately 15 miles from Leicester. We're also the location of choice for Next headquarters, in Enderby. The popular 1970s code-cracking game Mastermind, ...
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=172398&command=newPage
This is Leicestershire
... could be the symptoms of global warming. A Leicester University climate expert said today the pattern of weather seen this week is exactly that forecast to result from the so-called greenhouse effect. Temperatures so far this year have been an average of 3C (5F) warmer than those usually expected for January. Dr Sean Lawrence, of the university's ...
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133136&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133129&contentPK=11625044
PhysOrg.com - Observation of material circling a supermassive black hole
... instrument (European Photon Imaging Camera) used to make these observations was built by four countries, led by the University of Leicester where Professor ...
http://www.physorg.com/news2626.html
EducationGuardian.co.uk - Turkey calling - are you receiving us?
... are putting it to use in ever more imaginative ways" - a view backed up in an imminent DfES report, produced by the University of Leicester's school of ...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1387206,00.html
innovations report - Little earth
... of ‘big science' research in the 20th-21st centuries, are to be celebrated by an arts initiative to which University of Leicester space scientists have ...
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-38627.html
Managing Information - Nominations Wanted For Web Accessibility Awards 2005
... Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is co-ordinating the Award, in association with the Museums Computer Group and Leicester University Museum Studies ...
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3420
Managing Information - University of Leicester Launches Sirsi Resolver
The University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has launched Sirsi Resolver to integrate access to all university electronic resources. ...
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3418
Food Navigator - Gene expression technology to provide new data on vitamin C safety
... Joseph Lunec head of the Genome Instability Group within the Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester, who is heading ...
http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-NG.asp?n=57214-gene-expression-technology
BBC News - Music to deter yobs by
... Leicester University psychologist Adrian North, who researches links between music and behaviour, says classical music is not going to be a cure for all anti ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4154711.stm
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Swift catches first cosmic blasts
... said Professor Alan Wells, leader of the University of Leicester's XRT team. "In the past it has taken hours to view the afterglow with a high-quality telescope. Now we'll be on the scene within minutes." Professor Burrows said that apart from a circuit problem with the thermal control on the XRT, the satellite was performing very well ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4156289.stm
Science Daily (press release) - NASA Swift Mission Turns On And Sees A Blast Of Bursts
... Los Alamos; Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, England; the University of Leicester, England ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050106091700.htm
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http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_16873.shtml
Centre Daily Times, USA - PSU scientists 'delighted' as telescope captures its first images
... It was built at Penn State with partners at the Brera Astronomical Observatory in Italy and the University of Leicester in England ...
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/sports/horse_racing/kentucky_derby/10576081.htm
Quote.com - NASA Swift Mission Turns on and Sees a Blast of Bursts
... Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, England; the University of Leicester, England; the Brera Observatory, Milan, Italy; and ASI Science Data Center, Rome. Images of the BAT's "first light" and Swift's first bursts are on the Internet at:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/swift_first_light.html
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TheStar.com - The dead need names
... Discovered in England Sept. 11, 1984, by University of Leicester professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, it allows investigators to map a human's genetic fingerprint — and is still being used to confirm the identities of victims from the Sept. 11, 2001 airliner crashes into the World Trade Center in New York City. DNA testing has also been ...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1104621011769&call_pageid=970599119419
bmj.com - Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: Details of risk adjustment tools were not given - Letter
... Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 6TP...
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7481/43-b
Times Online - Sunday Times
... says John Maltby, lecturer in psychology at Leicester University and co-author of a study on young people's attitudes to celebrity. "Celebrity worship now provides an important reference point for growing up. It's part of the transfer of attachment from parents to peer group. Also, whereas in past times family, ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1422287,00.html
Telegraph.co.uk - They have ways of making you spend
... Research at Leicester University showed that French music played in a supermarket's wine aisle boosted sales of French plonk ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/12/31/ftspend31.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/01/01/ixartleft.html
British Satellite News
...images outdoors too. In the grounds of Leicester University shapes and symbols engaging modern forms against a more traditional backdrop of formal English gardens ...
http://www.bsn.org.uk/bsn/bsnenscripts.nsf/(httpScripts)/8D5EA3C50505A0C580256F790041E08B?OpenDocument
ic Huddersfield.co.uk - Scientist's creation makes him a real star
... College to do science A-levels.". Dr Hirst studied at Oxford University and later did a PHD in Leicester. He added: "I liked the sky ...
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=15021995&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=scientist-s-creation-makes-him-a-real-star-name_page.html
Times Online - Comment
... David Johnson,School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Silly season RICHARD OWEN recently reported on the Pope's fight to keep Christ in Christmas (December 16). It gets worse. There are those who are trying to take the word Christmas out of our language as well ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,564-1418077,00.html
Guardian - Medieval mural's tales of sorcery
... A book published in Italy by George Ferzoco, director of the centre for Tuscan studies at the University of Leicester, argues that at least two of the women in ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1380237,00.html
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New Scientist - Scale of tsunami tragedy complicates DNA matching
... Alec Jeffreys, at the University of Leicester, UK, who pioneered DNA profiling techniques, agrees that using 10 markers is not robust in this situation where ...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6851
This Is Trowbridge - Onward for Chippenham, and possibly upward
... from a position as first team hooker at Leicester University he has started the last six matches. "To tell the truth he's been a godsend and solved a lot of problems for us in the forwards. "He's worth a first team shirt in three positions. "Getting him, Gary (Champion) and Andy Williamson back this year has been like getting three ...
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/sport/rugby/SPORT_RUGBY_LOCAL6.html
GraduateEngineer.com - A first in dumbing down
... The findings will give added impetus to the work of Professor Robert Burgess, vice-chancellor of Leicester University, who is leading a Government-backed task ...
http://www.graduateengineer.com/eonicweb.asp?pgid=4&artid=2042
thehindu.com - Has it become Islam versus the West?
Is Islam the new bogeyman of the West now that the old "enemy," the Soviet Union, is no longer in sight? Hasan Suroor takes a look.
http://www.thehindu.com/2004/05/30/stories/2004053000141600.htm
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