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Insights into visual supersense provided by new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities
An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.
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Video gallery of the Attenboroughs at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/video-gallery
View the University of Leicester’s video gallery of Sir David Attenborough, Lord Richard Attenborough and Michael Attenborough OBE
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Management in a Global Context
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7568
Module code: MN7568 Module Outline This module is inspired by the globalization of business and the correspondingly increased likelihood that we will manage, work alongside or sell products and services to and buy products and services from people from other countries,...
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Leicester academic honoured by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-academic-honoured-by-the-society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry
A former Leicester academic will be celebrated at the anniversary meeting of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) on 20 May.
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University marks Prematurity Awareness Month by encouraging schools to take up the Prem Aware Award to support children born early
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/prematuritymonth
Research undertaken by experts from the University of Leicester is helping to support parents and teachers of children born prematurely
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‘Bizarre and unintelligible’ or ‘unique and splendid’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/01/11/bizarre-and-unintelligible-or-unique-and-splendid/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on January 11, 2016 ‘The Palace, Brighton’ from: SCM 08510, J.D.
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The largest prison in the world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/19/reflections-on-the-worlds-largest-prison/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...
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Petrophysicist joins ocean drilling research project investigating the origins of life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/petrophysicist-joins-ocean-drilling-research-project-investigating-the-origins-of-life
On 26 October 2015, the RSS James Cook (pictured) set sail from Southampton on route to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Dr Sally Morgan from the Department of Geology at Leicester, is a petrophysicist within the international team of scientists who are on-board the vessel.
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Alumni
https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni
Take a look at the career profiles of some of the PhD alumni of the University of Leicester Department of Respiratory Sciences (incorporating Infection, Immunity and Inflammation), as examples of the variety of career paths that are possible.
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Preserving the grave
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/preserving-the-grave
One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.