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• Approaching the Roman World

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah1701

  Module code: AH1701 How did Rome transform from an insignificant city state to become the ruler of the world? What role did gods and heroes play in the development of Roman society? What was the deal with all of the crazy emperors? Everybody knows about the Romans.

• Was Richard IIIs scoliosis kept a secret until his death

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/was-richard-iiis-scoliosis-kept-a-secret-until-his-death

  Last month saw the mortal remains of King Richard III reinterred at Leicester Cathedral, more than two years after University archaeologists discovered his skeleton in a car park in August 2012.

• Scientists see detailed makeup of deadly toxin for the first time

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/scientists-2018see2019-detailed-make-up-of-deadly-toxin-for-the-first-time

  L-R: Professor Peter Moody, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Professor Russell Wallis of the Departments of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor Peter Andrew, Head of Department of Infection, Immunity and...

• Research to save the most valuable silk moth in the world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/research-to-2018save-the-most-valuable-silk-moth-in-the-world2019

  Research that could help to save one of the rarest and most valuable silks in the world is being spearheaded by a team that is developing a technique known as phage therapeutics to target harmful bacterial infections in Muga silkworms in order to protect them...

• Information for the public

  https://le.ac.uk/lctu/trials/easy-as/public

  Find out the information available to the general public for the EASY-AS trial.

• Expedition 342: Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts

  https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2011-12/newfoundland

  June 2012 – August 2012 In June 2012, the JOIDES Resolution set sail to the North Atlantic Ocean south of Newfoundland, not far from where the RMS Titanic sank 100 years ago.

• Ground control arrives at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/ground-control-arrives-at-leicester

  Scientists at our University are a step closer to controlling their own satellite missions now that a new satellite ground station dish has been installed on campus.

• Big Band raise the bar

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/big-band-raise-the-bar

  Talented students making up the University’s Big Band have wowed crowds and judges alike with their performances at the National Festival of Music for Youth.

• Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earths climate half a billion years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/tiny-fossils-unlock-clues-to-earth2019s-climate-half-a-billion-years-ago

  An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester, has investigated Earth’s climate over half a billion years ago by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long.

• Leicester cardiology consultant awarded prestigious research professorship

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/leicester-cardiology-consultant-awarded-prestigious-research-professorship

  A cardiology consultant from Leicester has been awarded a prestigious research professorship from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).