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Physics at Leicester: light years from its humble beginnings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/physics-centenary-100-years-history
As the School of Physics and Astronomy celebrates 100 years of Physics at Leicester, find out more about its history and achievements
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Welcome to the School of Criminology Blog
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/05/04/welcome-to-the-school-of-criminology-blog/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on May 4, 2023 By Prof Lisa Smith Professor of Criminology & Head of School One thing I’ve learned from studying and working in criminology and forensic psychology is that most people I...
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Global Cities: the View from Asia
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7212
Module code: HS7212 The role of a city is one that is ever changing. Historically, city-dwellers made up only a small percentage of the global population but, due to mass urbanisation over the past 200 years, this has grown to over half the world's inhabitants.
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Global Cities: the View from Asia
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs7212
Module code: HS7212 The role of a city is one that is ever changing. Historically, city-dwellers made up only a small percentage of the global population but, due to mass urbanisation over the past 200 years, this has grown to over half the world's inhabitants.
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Global Cities: the View from Asia
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7212
Module code: HS7212 The role of a city is one that is ever changing. Historically, city-dwellers made up only a small percentage of the global population but, due to mass urbanisation over the past 200 years, this has grown to over half the world's inhabitants.
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Eradicating famine in Africa gets boost through new research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/researchers-resolve-to-eradicate-famine-and-food-insecurity-in-kenya
Leicester researchers are part of an international team spearheading a Newton-Utafiti Fund project delivered by the British Council to restore food security to millions of vulnerable households in Kenya following natural disasters.
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New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera
Team including University of Leicester palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more numerous than thought
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Professor Sir Hans Kornberg
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/hans-kornberg
Hans Kornberg with colleagues in 1974. L-R: Geoff Turnock, Arthur Rowe, unknown, David Critchley, Hans Kornberg, Ron Cooper, unknown, Colin Jones, Peter Henderson(possibly), Ken Jones (photo: Chris Willmott) The Biochemistry Department in 1974.
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New book explores life in Roman and Medieval Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/highcross-dig-book
Roman curse tablets Intriguing evidence relates to two lead curse tablets, from the town house at Vine Street, which have transformed our understanding of who lived in the Roman town and their links to the wider Empire.
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The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/baseball-cap
Read the article The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption? This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.