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  • Leicester geologist contributes to major project examining the technosphere

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-geologist-contributes-to-major-project-examining-the-2018technosphere2019

    Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from our Department of Geology is working with artist Anne-Sophie Milon on a new project examining the ‘technosphere’ and what impact it will leave behind on the planet’s fossil record.

  • Monkeys and chimpanzees have created their own archaeological sites dating back hundreds of years

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/monkeys-and-chimpanzees-have-created-their-own-archaeological-sites-dating-back-hundreds-of-years

    Capuchin monkeys have created their own archaeological sites in Brazil, complete with nut-cracking tools that date back at least 600-700 years ago, according to recent research – and Dr Huw Barton from the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History...

  • New academy aims to change nature of health care for older people

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-academy-aims-to-change-nature-of-health-care-for-older-people

    A new academy has been set up in Leicester that hopes to tackle the challenges of ageing and change the nature of health care for older people.

  • Unity is our strength why it is vital to stay in the EU

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unity-is-our-strength-2013-why-it-is-vital-to-stay-in-the-eu

    Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West and Labour's East Midlands EU Champion visited the University of Leicester’s new Centre for Medicine, which is part-funded by the European Union.

  • Scientists develop new product to tackle Salmonella

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/salmonella

    Scientists have successfully developed a bacteriophage product to prevent Salmonella in broiler chickens.

  • DNA fingerprinting

    https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting

    In 1984 Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester, learn more about his work.

  • Investors and Investees Behaviours

    https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/investors-and-investees-behaviours

    Financial innovation has opened financial markets to unprecedented numbers of retail investors with no or limited knowledge and experience of actively participating in financial markets.

  • Vacation placements

    https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/careers/vacation-placements

    A number of our students have been fortunate enough to gain from vacation placements while at Leicester.

  • Preserving the grave

    https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/preserving-the-grave

    One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.

  • About the Project

    https://le.ac.uk/crime-representation-anglophone-caribbean/about-the-project

    The project addresses the complex problem of crime in Anglophone Caribbean societies from various disciplinary perspectives. Its aim is to develop our understanding of the historical, cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts of crime in the region.

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