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Career Development Service shortlisted for two national awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/career-development-service-shortlisted-for-two-national-awards
Our University has been shortlisted for two national awards highlighting the pioneering work being delivered by the Career Development Service to prepare students for the competitive world of work.
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Activities
https://le.ac.uk/miv/activities
The minimal surfaces project has created a number of research activities, including papers, conferences, seminars and talks.
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Space Missions: The Executive Guide to Space
https://le.ac.uk/courses/cpd-executive-guide-to-space/2026
A primer to put you on the launchpad to a career in the space industry.
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Music scholarships awarded to talented students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-music-scholarships
Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to support University of Leicester students through the Alumni and Philharmonia Scholarship scheme.
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Staff and students to climb Everest in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/staff-and-students-to-climb-everest-in-leicester
The Attenborough Tower, the tallest building on the University of Leicester’s campus, stands at 52 metres high. Mount Everest is 171 times higher, at 8848 metres. On Wednesday 6 May, between 9.30am and 3.
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Schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/14-refugee-camp
Appeal for more schools to become ‘Schools of Sanctuary’. Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.
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Black Lives Matter
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/about/black-lives-matter
Academics in the Centre for American Studies have put together a list of resources for anyone interested in learning more about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Student gospel choir to give pop-up concert at Leicester’s John Lewis for Black History Month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/student-gospel-choir-concert-john-lewis-black-history-month
A student gospel choir will entertain John Lewis shoppers as part of the University of Leicester’s Black History Month celebrations.
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Analysing the skeleton
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/analysing-the-skeleton
Analysis of the bones has identified the skeleton as an adult male aged between his late 20s and late 30s; whilst forensic analysis of the bone joints, using standard post-mortem methods, provides a narrower estimate of 30-34 years of age.
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Leicester scientists win Space Oscar for pioneering research to reduce deforestation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-scientists-win-2018space-oscar2019-for-pioneering-research-to-reduce-deforestation
Research that has led to a mobile app to help combat illegal logging has been recognised internationally.