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Halloween event on campus promotes food waste reduction
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-pumpkin-rescue
Students and staff learned about recycling and how to minimise wastage at a Halloween event on campus last week. Our Social Impact Team organised the Pumpkin Rescue event to show that hollowing out a Halloween pumpkin doesn’t have to involve throwing away perfectly good food.
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Leicester historian’s ‘elegant pages’ that provided the script for last coronation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-order-of-service
Details of University of Leicester historian’s contribution to the design and printing of the Order of Service for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II unearthed
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Astronomers discover system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/astronomers-discover-system-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away
An international team of astronomers, including space scientists from our University, has found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away.
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New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot
Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.
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Preclinical imaging facility
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/research/preclinical-imaging
Our preclinical imaging facility houses a number of state of the art imaging systems.
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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/4/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Can learning outcomes support the broader purposes of higher education? – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/02/20/lopurposes/
The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Can learning outcomes support the broader purposes of higher education?
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Sir David Attenborough highlights destruction of the natural world within a generation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/sir-david-attenborough-highlights-destruction-of-the-natural-world-within-a-generation
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough opened a new £1.5million galleries wing at Attenborough Arts Centre – the building championed by his late brother Lord Attenborough.
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New £2.9 million project to develop rehabilitation programme for people with multiple long-term conditions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/perform
Researchers in Leicester are developing a new programme to provide exercise-based rehabilitation to people living with multiple long-term health conditions.
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Politics of the International Drug Trade
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl3142
Module code: PL3142 The illegal drug trade has been estimated to take up almost 1% of all trade on Earth.