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Bake Off host will make for Quite Interesting graduation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/bake-off-host-will-make-for-quite-interesting-graduation
Those bowled over by Bake-Off this year will find plenty to celebrate at our graduation ceremonies this summer.
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The story of skeletons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-story-of-skeletons
What links the narwhal’s tusk, ancient trilobites, Richard III (and his drinking habits), tumbleweed, an argonaut, and the outstretched fourth finger of a pterosaur? They are among the cast of characters that feature in a new book by University of Leicester professors Jan...
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How women shaped University history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/how-women-shaped-university-history
The Special Collections team in the University’s Library has unearthed a selection of treasures from the University Archives providing an insight into the University’s history and revealing how women have helped shape the institution from its foundation to the present day.
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Sensational discovery of previously unseen Adrian Mole diary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/sensational-discovery-of-previously-unseen-adrian-mole-diary
Teenage intellectual Mole achieved fame in the 1980s for his astute, observational journal cataloguing middle class domestic life in a Leicester household. He has been cited by some critics as “a modern day Pepys.
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Colonialism, prison and mental health
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/colonialism-prisons
The University of Leicester in partnership with the University of Guyana and the Guyana Prison Service
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James Campbell
https://le.ac.uk/people/james-campbell
The academic profile of Dr James Campbell, Associate Professor of American History at University of Leicester
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Suraj Pathak
https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/people/previous-researchers/suraj-pathak
Clinical Research Fellow in Cardiac Surgery Background Suraj is a clinical research fellow in cardiac surgery. He initially trained as an engineer, completing a degree in Bioengineering from Imperial College London.
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Another Doctoral Grant success for School of Education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/another-doctoral-grant-success-for-school-of-education-phd-student
Keke Zhang of the School of Education has been awarded a 2015 TOEFL Doctoral Research Grant for her research into the development and validation of a rating scale for assessing argumentative essays written by Chinese undergraduates in English programmes.
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Harnessing the power of rain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/harnessing-the-power-of-rain
Physics students taking the Physics Special Topics module have investigated how viable rainfall is as a source of energy - particularly in comparison to solar energy.
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Researchers identify common biological features of different types of asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/researchers-identify-common-biological-features-of-different-types-of-asthma
Researchers have identified biological variations in lung tissue samples that for the first time can help identify people with mild asthma from those with moderate or severe asthma.