University of Leicester in the Media for July
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- Following the London bombings, Professor Martin Gill featured on: 7-7-05 Leicester Sound, 8-7-05 BBC News 24 on CCTV, 8-7-05 interview with German Financial Times on CCTV, 8-7-05 interview with Ottawa Herald on CCTV, 11-7-05 interview on WBUR News 90.9 FM in Boston USA on CCTV in a small US town, interviewed 12 July on CBS radio about CCTV and the fight against terrorism. A phone in on CKNW Radio in Vancouver tonight on CCTV. Martin Gill was also on BBC World Business 14 July, on the sentencing of Bernie Ebbers for fraud. BBC Radio interviews, Thursday afternoon: Terrorism and the response from now on, some interviewers focussed on CCTV - 3 Counties Radio, Leeds, Cornwall, GMR (Manchester), Radio Scotland, Radion Lancashire, Oxford, Bristol, Leicester, Northampton, Southern Counties, Asian Network & BBC World Service.
- Dr Mike Rowe, Criminology, was on Good Morning Scotland, on BBC Radio Scotland, on 5 July discussing the policing of the G8 protests in Edinburgh. He was also featured on Reporting Scotland (BBC TV News) on 5 July discussing the role of the police in responding to the G8 protests. Mike was interviewed by Radio Leicester, Leicester Sound, Century 106, Hospital Radio about the London atrocity. Radio interviews on the policing implications of the terrorist bombings: Monday 11 July - BBC Radio Wales, Leeds, Bristol, Hereford and Worcester, Coventry, and Oxford. Friday 15 July - Radio Leicester discussion programme.
- Simon Bennett (criminology) was on Leicester Sound and MATV about the London atrocity.
- Professor Richard Bonney (History) was on Leicester sound about the London atrocity and on MATV. Professor Richard Bonney featured on Radio 4 re terrorism on Wednesday July 12 - Richard Bonney's interview will be broadcast on Radio 4 Analysis Special (Edward Stourton presenting): The Theology of Terrorism on Thursday 21 July at 20.30
- Claire Townsend, Historical Studies, was on Saga FM talking about regional identity.
- Martin Gill (PRCI): Interviewed by Associated Press (USA) about CCTV. Asian TV on business crime. BBC Radio Essex breakfast on CCTV (25 July 2005).
- Simon Bennett (Criminology) was on Leicester Sound on 21 July (failed bombings in London).
- Richard Bonney (Historical Studies) was on Radio 5 Live on 27 July about the effect on society of the bombings.
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The Herald, Glasgow - Scientist son of miner hits the top of majors - He is a non-executive director of BP and pro-chancellor of the University of Leicester. He stepped down as a non-executive of Nycomed Amersham in 2000...
UK-Wire Financial Times - Financial Express Company Announcements (UK-Wire) - MSc in Geology and Mineral Sciences from the University of Leicester in 1969. He worked for a number of major mining groups, including Anglo American, Falconbridge and Rio Tinto. Michael spent 11 years with the mining team of the UK investment bank SG Warburg (now UBS) from 1986-97. He was appointed Head of the South African Mining Equities...
The American Reporter - Director of the Centre for American Studies at Leicester University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in American foreign policy, the history of propaganda and the politics of popular culture, and is the author of numerous books on the subject. His first book, "Selling War", was a study of British information work in the United States before...
Public Agenda - insurer and holds an MBA in Finance from the Leicester University, UK. Other Executives elected include Mr. Benjamin Acolatse, Managing Director, Mainstream Reinsurance Company as Vice President, Kofi Dufuor, Managing Director, Star Assurance Company is the new treasurer. GSB to co-ordinate sub-regional activities The African Organization for...
Nature Magazine - Bacteria sniff out host's help - Nosy neighbours call on the immune system to wipe up competitors notes Mike Barer, a microbiologist at the University of Leicester, UK. But the interaction of bacteria with the host's immune system is a new twist on this story. Weiser says that more work into the interactions between us and our bacterial flora could lead to greater understanding and perhaps a better way of designing treatments. "Maybe we'll get...
YubaNet - William Fisher: Finally, a Degree in Public Diplomacy - Director of the Centre for American Studies at Leicester University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in US foreign policy, the history of propaganda and the politics of popular culture, and is the author of numerous books on the subject. His first book, "Selling War", was a study of British information work in the United States before Pearl... also at www.ipsnews.net and OpEdNews.Com and Bellaciao and Pakistani Newspaper
SikhSangat News, USA - London mayor meets Sikh leaders - project team to work up a series of options with initial ideas being developed and presented at the Young Sikhs (UK) Conference at Leicester University on 20 ...
Democrat Newspaper, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis - AVENICE GRADUATES WITH MBA - Avenice Jeffers of New Road Housing Development graduated with a MBA [Masters of Business Administration] degree from the University of Leicester(UL), England ...
Washington Post - FINDINGS - said the team, led by William Toff of Britain's Leicester University. The finding was published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Atrioventricular blocks, which occur when electrical impulses fail to reach the ventricles or are conducted with a delay, are a common reason for implanting a pacemaker. The test of 2,021 volunteers who...
British Satellite News - Head of Earth Observation Sciences Group, University of Leicester: "We understand relatively little about these clouds.. 10. Postgraduate climate researcher Harjinder Sembhi walking in corridor 8" 11. SOT (English speech) super: Harjinder Sembhi, Climate researcher, University of Leicester "Ozone in the stratosphere is good.. 12. John Remedios...
Webbolt Business News, Toronto, Canada - University of Leicester researchers to patent... - Dr Talat Nasim, a research fellow in the Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, working with Professor Richard Trembath, Professor of... and at I-Newswire.com
British Satellite News - animation of Jupiter. 2. Exterior view of Leicester University Solar-Planetary Physics Department 3. SOT (English speech) super: Professor Stan Cowley, Juno Space Mission Co-investigator. "Jupiter is obviously .." 4. Various computer images showing auroras on Jupiter. 5. SOT (English speech) super: Professor Stan Cowley, Juno Space Mission...
ivillage - Study Questions Value of 2-Chamber Pacemakers - Toff, a senior lecturer in cardiology at the University of Leicester. That assertion drew an immediate rebuttal from Dr. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, a professor of medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal. Ellenbogen's major criticism was that the study only included...
PrimeZone Media Network - AdAl Group, Inc. Appoints Director, Chief Financial Officer and Other Key Finance Executives - compliance. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of the University of Leicester with a degree in Mathematics. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kennedy held various corporate accounting positions with General Electric from 2002 through 2005 and JP Morgan Chase UK from 1995 through 2002. "The addition of these key individuals strengthens our corporate...
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The Magazine Monitor - produces pressure waves according to The Leicester University model. These pressure waves interact with the jet stream leading to large climate changes...
Excite - Health - D. Toff, a senior lecturer in cardiology at the University of Leicester. That assertion drew an immediate rebuttal from Dr. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, a professor of medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal. Ellenbogen's major criticism was that the study only included...
British Satellite News - will respond to radiotherapy. But here at Leicester University, scientists think they've found a way to do just that. Cells taken from tumours of the bladder which have been exposed to X-rays are examined under the microscope to see the effect on the cell structure. These little dots are individual cancer cells. The more the cell is damaged by the...
The Book of Thoth - Your Portal to the Unknown - X-rays show depth of Deep Impact - said Paul O'Brien, of the Swift team at the University of Leicester, UK. "How things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe travelling over 20,000 miles (32,000km) per hour. "The X-ray light we detect now is generated by debris created by the collision combined with material naturally coming off the comet." Solar winds Although the...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | X-rays show depth of Deep Impact - said Paul O'Brien, of the Swift team at the University of Leicester, UK. "How things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe travelling over 20,000 miles (32,000km) per hour. "The X-ray light we detect now is generated by debris created by the collision combined with material naturally coming off the comet." Solar winds Although the...
HealthDay - D. Toff, a senior lecturer in cardiology at the University of Leicester. That assertion drew an immediate rebuttal from Dr. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, a professor of medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal. Ellenbogen's major criticism was that the study only included... also at
ABC News: Dual pacemakers no better for people over 70 - to the team led by William Toff of Britain's Leicester University. Obesity Concerns Prompt Call for Soda Warning Labels Study: What's Good Often Turns Out Bad Possible Causes of Rehnquist's Fever The finding was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. Atrioventricular blocks, which occur when electrical impulses fail to reach... and also
NEJM -- Single-Chamber versus Dual-Chamber Pacing for High-Grade Atrioventricular Block - From the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester (W.D.T.), and the Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital (W.D.T., J.D.S.), Leicester, United Kingdom; and the Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George's University of London, London (A.J.C.).
Reuters AlertNet - Dual pacemakers no better for people over 70 - in older people with a heart condition known as atrioventricular block, according to the team led by William Toff of Britain's Leicester University...
New England Journal of Medicine - Single-Chamber versus Dual-Chamber Pacing for High-Grade - From the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester (WDT), and the Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust...
MedPage Today - Pacing Mode Doesn't Affect Outcomes in High-Grade AV Block - pacing, improves hemodynamic function, but the clinical benefit is uncertain," wrote William D. Toff, MD, of the University of Leicester here, and colleagues...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo - supervising Phd students on behalf the University of Leicester, it will now be able to award its own research degrees and Phds. In fact, the first University of Northampton Phd students are expected through the doors of the Park and Avenue campuses at the beginning of next term. Academic plans include focusing on research degrees in...
International Reporter - New Delhi,India: Comet released tons of routine debris into space - Paul O'Brien of the Swift team at the University of Leicester, the things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe traveling over 20,000 miles per hour...
Space.com - USA: Deep Insight: Comet Buster Reveals Dusty Secrets - Swift is only doing this on its spare time -- taking off time from its day job," said Paul O'Brien of the Swift team at the University of Leicester...
Innovations-Report, Germany - Scientists Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was, With X-rays - rendezvous with the Deep Impact probe, the comet was a rather dim X-ray source," said Dr. Paul O'Brien of the Swift team at the University of Leicester...
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Students | University students told to get MMR jabs - Clare Taylor, head of welfare at Leicester University, said it was discussing with the local health trust funding urgent sessions for students who arrive not properly protected. Between late last year and early this year, about 40 Leicester students fell ill with mumps but the incidence dropped quickly after the university...
InfoSpace Broadband Portal - dim X-ray source," said Dr. Paul O'Brien of the University of Leicester in England. "How things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe traveling over 20,000 miles per hour. Most of the X-ray light we detect now is generated by debris created by the collision. We can get a solid measurement of the amount of material released."
ScienceDaily - Scientists Use X-rays To Measure How Deep 'Deep Impact' Was - said Dr. Paul O'Brien of the Swift team at the University of Leicester. "How things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe traveling over 20,000 miles per hour. Most of the X-ray light we detect now is generated by debris created by the collision. We can get a solid measurement of the amount of material released." "It takes several days...
Boston's WBUR Radio: As Britain copes, a massive hunt for London bombers - says Martin Gill, a professor in criminology at Leicester University. "The real advantage of CCTV is that is may be able to help track people throughout London and beyond to pick up evidence." Two separate claims from groups saying they are affiliates of Al Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attacks. A former police chief, Sir John Stevens... and at WBUR and Travel Video Television News
X-rays measure comet Tempel 1
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dim X-ray source," said Dr. Paul O'Brien of the >>>University of Leicester<<< in England. "How things change when you ram a comet with a copper probe traveling over 20,000 miles per hour. Most of the X-ray light we detect now is generated by debris created by the collision. We can get a solid measurement of the amount of material released." Copyright
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ABC News: As Britain copes, a massive hunt for London bombers
says Martin Gill, a professor in criminology at >>>Leicester University<<<. "The real advantage of CCTV is that is may be able to help track people throughout London and beyond to pick up evidence." Two separate claims from groups saying they are affiliates of Al Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attacks. A former police chief, Sir John Stevens,
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As Britain copes, a massive hunt for London bombers | csmonitor.com
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says Martin Gill, a professor in criminology at >>>Leicester University<<<. "The real advantage of CCTV is that is may be able to help track people throughout London and beyond to pick up evidence." Two separate claims from groups saying they are affiliates of Al Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attacks. A former police chief, Sir John Stevens,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0711/p07s01-woeu.html
Young, gifted and black - Sunday Times - Times Online
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two-down near the Victoria Park campus of >>>Leicester University<<<. She took a steady job in Leicester's Grand Hotel, the residence of choice for travelling businessmen, and focused her talents and energies on her son and moving him up in the world. Damon got into Gateway, a Leicester boys' grammar school specialising in engineering and industrial
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1687766,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | University students told to get MMR jabs
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immunisation. Clare Taylor, head of welfare at >>>Leicester University<<<, said it was discussing with the local health trust funding urgent sessions for students who arrive not properly protected. Between late last year and early this year, about 40 Leicester students fell ill with mumps but the incidence dropped quickly after the university and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1525596,00.html
Straight Talk from the Top; Part Two - Features
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a young lecturer, a University Professor at the >>>University of Leicester<<<. A couple of years later he asked me to open the ESRI UK office. I did open that office in 1990 and ran that operation until 1996. First of January 1997 I started working in Redlands. As I recall, the UK office put out some interesting software that ended up inside ESRI's
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Human-tracking Goes Mainstream - Articles
professor of geographic information science, >>>University of Leicester<<< and editor of the International Journal of Geographic Information Science, and I have raised these and other crucial questions in scholarly journals and trade magazines, but questioning of any sort is strangely absent elsewhere. It's time for an explicit national debate on
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Centre Daily Times | 07/09/2005 | Penn State researchers analyzing comet dust-up
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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/dailytimes/12090559.htm
Scientists measure how deep 'Deep Impact' was, with X-rays
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Lancet: World Report - Clinician expert witnesses take the stand. Jose Miola, academic medical lawyer interviewed and quoted - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673605668043/fulltext
Mike Rowe, Criminology, was on BBC on Line, Scotland, about policing of the G8 summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4661127.stm
BBC NEWS | Health | Relaxant 'helps premature babies'
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David Field, professor of neonatology at the >>>University of Leicester<<<, said the US findings did not give the green light for using nitric oxide treatment, but were useful pointers to further research. "The babies in the US study who were not given nitric oxide did not do as well as babies in the UK would generally do." But he said: "They did
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4656105.stm
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of archeoastronomy and ancient history at the >>>University of Leicester<<< in the United Kingdom, will speak at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame. The talk is the keynote address of a four-day workshop on the history of astronomy. Libraries The Dowagiac District Library and Majerek's Cards and Books in Dowagiac
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Participants in research: Contract to run a trial should include patient-researchers in steering groups -- Thornton 331 (7508): 110 -- BMJ
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
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DNA fingerprinting sparks fresh worries - Genetic Genealogy - MSNBC.com
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NASA Deep Impact
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Honorary degree from Leicester University for Vikram Seth
Hindustan Times - Delhi,India
Noted author Vikram Seth is among the 13 luminaries to be conferred with honorary degrees by Britain's prestigious University of Leicester next week, it was ...
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Leicester varsity honorary degree for Vikram Seth - Sify.com
get honorary degrees from Britain's prestigious >>>University of Leicester<<<, it was officially announced on Monday. "Those to be honoured represented the worlds of literature, entertainment, music, business, science, medicine, sport, the legal profession and the Church who have made unique contributions in their fields," University vice-chancellor
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
said Mark Garnett, a politics professor at the >>>University of Leicester<<<. Momentum is everything, Garnett added, and failure in any one of the huge endeavors Blair is attempting could tarnish the legacy he hopes to establish. "He's had so many batterings over the years, you really do need to feel he's got a purpose," he said. Even
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KRT Wire | 07/04/2005 | High expectations await Blair at G-8 summit
said Mark Garnett, a politics professor at the >>>University of Leicester<<<. Momentum is everything, Garnett added, and failure in any one of the huge endeavors Blair is attempting could tarnish the legacy he hopes to establish. "He's had so many batterings over the years, you really do need to feel he's got a purpose," he said. Even something
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said Mark Garnett, a politics professor at the >>>University of Leicester<<<. Momentum is everything, Mr. Garnett added, and failure in any one of the huge endeavors that Mr. Blair is attempting could tarnish his legacy. "He's had so many batterings over the years, you really do need to feel he's got a purpose," he said. Even something seemingly
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Sunday Life
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put together by the Pathology department at the >>>University of Leicester<<<. After a short report detailing the circumstances surrounding each death, you'll be asked to choose from a range of possible causes. A clever idea and fiendishly addictive. www.le.ac.uk/ pathology/teach/ va/titlpag1.html Copwatch If you want to do your bit to beat the bad
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Honorary degree for Vikram Seth
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G8 Summit:
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BBC NEWS | UK | Muslim students' integration call - Delegates at the three day conference at Leicester University will be addressed by Muslim academics from around the world and attend a variety of workshops. They will also hear from the wife of Babar Ahmad who is facing extradition to the US on terror charges. FOSIS president Wakkar Khan said her presence reflected the students' concern ...
Channelnewsasia.com - as in the United Kingdom when I was studying at Leicester University. I am now a locally and internationally-qualified coach in rifle, shotgun and pistol sports. Describe your first hunt. I started shooting at 11. I was first a bird shooter, shooting green pigeons and flying foxes on plantations in Malaysia. When I was in the UK, I shot lots of...
Independent Online - Gene's dubious precision in tracing roots - The problem, says Professor Mark Jobling of Leicester University is that although such tests may indicate a degree of relatedness, they do not provide accurate information on how far back the common ancestor lived. "Dating is limited. Saying that two men share recent patrilinear ancestors is possible, but showing when they shared that ancestor is...
Mail on Sunday - Will War of the Worlds damage our children? - long-term harm." Professor Barrie Gunter, of Leicester University, said: "It's likely to be very frightening, but as it is science fiction most children will see it as a step removed from real life." Last night Deborah Sheppard, marketing director of the film's UK distributor UIP, said: 'War of the Worlds contains sustained menace, threat and...
BBC - Leicester - Entertainment - Q&A with a 'Four Weddings' actor - Dickens in the new series of Doctor Who. Leicester University's Ripple newspaper interviewer, Edward Gleave caught up with Simon just before he narrated a classical concert at De Montfort Hall, to see what else he's been up to since Four Weddings...
GraduateEngineer.com - probe aims to make a big impact - A team from the University of Leicester, and UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, are also involved in the project. Observation ...
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