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• Leicester geneticist awarded prestigious Fellowship

  Date: 9 September 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-geneticist-awarded-prestigious-fellowship

  Dr Turi King (pictured), Reader in Genetics and Archaeology at the University has been awarded a prestigious British Science Association (BSA)...

• Event explores digital opportunities for crisis work and international development

  Date: 24 November 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-explores-digital-opportunities-for-crisis-work-and-international-development

  The role of communications and technology in crises worldwide are to be discussed at an event that launches a new international network of...

• Leicester conservation project to save threatened wildflowers from extinction

  Date: 18 November 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-conservation-project-to-save-threatened-wildflowers-from-extinction

  A new project at our University hopes to save rare and threatened local wildflowers from across Leicestershire and Rutland from extinction.

• Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to host plant and pollination themed art exhibitions

  Date: 13 July 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/university2019s-attenborough-arts-centre-to-host-plant-and-pollination-themed-art-exhibitions

  Our Attenborough Arts Centre will host two new contemporary art exhibitions in its brand new gallery spaces this summer, from 23 July – Sunday 25...

• New perspectives on Middle East encouraged in relaunched journal

  Date: 23 March 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/new-perspectives-on-middle-east-encouraged-in-relaunched-journal

  A journal that offers new perspectives on debates within Middle Eastern Studies and challenges orthodoxies in the field has been relaunched at...

• Research suggests people who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it

  Date: 3 April 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/research-suggests-people-who-want-to-prevent-immigration-to-the-uk-are-less-happy-than-those-who-welcome-it

  People who want to stop further immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it, and politicians are part of the reason for this,...

• Student and alumnus to take on 3100 mile trek across the USA

  Date: 21 March 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/student-and-alumnus-to-take-on-3-100-mile-trek-across-the-usa

  Two amateur hikers from our University are daring to take on a gruelling walk across the diverse landscape of the United States, documenting the...

• Vice-Chancellor speaks out on gender inequality in universities at international conference

  Date: 20 May 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/vice-chancellor-speaks-out-on-gender-inequality-in-universities-at-international-conference

  Our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has addressed the issue of gender inequality in universities at an international conference...

• University to host Distinguished Harvard Professor for prestigious lecture

  Date: 6 June 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-to-host-distinguished-harvard-professor-for-prestigious-lecture

  A Harvard Professor will be coming to the University of Leicester to give a prestigious public lecture named in memory of the famous British...

• Winner of Leicester competition to receive photograph from space

  Date: 25 January 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/winner-of-leicester-competition-to-receive-photograph-from-space

  Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s...