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Leicester Start-Up Week offers new opportunities for young businesses
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-start-up-week
From 18-24 November 2019 the University of Leicester and De Montfort University along with businesses and organisations across the city will unite for the second annual Leicester Start-Up Week.
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Northern Lights' growing impact on humanity to be explored in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/northern-lights-impact-humanity-explored
Dr Darren Wright of Space Park Leicester and the School of Physics & Astronomy to host ‘The northern lights: societal impacts of geomagnetic storms’ on 1 July
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Astronaut reveals challenges of human spaceflight in exciting workshop
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/astronaut-challenges-human-spaceflight-workshop
Dr Franco Malerba spoke to Physics students from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy for a Human Spaceflight Workshop at Space Park Leicester
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Kathrin Meissner
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/study/visiting-scholar-scheme/kathrin-meissner
I spent about one month at CUH in May 2019 as part of PhD project which covers the transformations of public communication about planning from the late 1950s to the late 1980s in German planning culture focussing on cases in East and West Berlin.
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Researcher publishes parliamentary report on the rise of fake news
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/researcher-publishes-parliamentary-report-on-the-rise-of-fake-news
Katie Raymer, who is studying for a PhD in our Department of Physics and Astronomy, has co-authored a report as part of her STFC internship with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology examining how people access news and information and the rise of fake news.
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Student balloon flight project tests innovative descent system and astrobiology experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/student-balloon-flight-project-tests-innovative-descent-system-and-astrobiology-experiment
Physics students from our University have flown a new high altitude balloon, achieving a successful test of their innovative descent system which could help in the development of stratospheric flights in the future.
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Student who started as a 12-year-old is youngest ever to graduate from our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/student-who-started-as-a-12-year-old-is-youngest-ever-to-graduate-from-our-university
A remarkable student, who just turned 15 last month, has gained a first-class Honours BSc degree in Mathematics from our University. Yasha Asley was only 12 when he embarked upon the three-year undergraduate degree.
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Research suggests greater access to Higher Education could have reversed EU referendum result
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/research-suggests-greater-access-to-higher-education-could-have-reversed-eu-referendum-result
Greater access to Higher Education could have reversed the result of the 2016 EU referendum, according to new research from our Department of Mathematics.
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Leicester expert discusses the rise of bingewatching through new digital platforms
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-expert-discusses-the-rise-of-2018binge-watching2019-through-new-digital-platforms
Fans of popular TV programmes such as Game of Thrones, the Walking Dead or Orange is the New Black may be familiar with the idea of binge-watching – sitting back and watching through multiple episodes of shows which carry an almost addictive quality.
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University partners in new world-class skills centre for automotive sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/university-partners-in-new-world-class-skills-centre-for-automotive-sector
Our University is partnering with HORIBA MIRA and other Midlands-based education institutions to build the MIRA Technology Institute – a new world-class skills centre for the automotive sector to be based at MIRA Technology Park.