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Curiosity disproves old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/curiosity-disproves-2018old-idea-of-mars-as-a-simple-basaltic-planet2019
As NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) celebrates four years on the Red Planet Leicester planetary scientist Professor John Bridges recounts the Curiosity mission’s success and explains what is next for the one-ton nuclear-powered science robot.
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Researchers develop new genetic tool to identify people at risk of coronary heart disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/researchers-develop-new-genetic-tool-to-identify-people-at-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease
A new genetic risk score that could help to identify individuals at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) much earlier and potentially improve its prevention has been developed by a team including a University of Leicester Professor in research part-funded by the British Heart...
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Prestigious archaeology prize for Leicester graduate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/prestigious-archaeology-prize-for-leicester-graduate
The Association for Environmental Archaeology has announced that Leicester alumna Nora Battermann has won their John Evans Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. This year’s winners of the John Evans Prizes were announced at the Association’s annual conference in Rome.
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Leicester research informs new Sporting Equals initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-research-informs-new-sporting-equals-initiative
Research from the University's Department of Sociology has informed Sporting Equals’s latest consumer research which provides valuable insight into the the young Asian Pakistani female market that sport providers can draw upon to make sport more inclusive for this...
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About and aims
https://le.ac.uk/preparde/about-and-aims
The PREPARDE project captured the processes and procedures required to publish a research dataset including developing workflows for a new open access Geoscience Data Journal published by project partners Wiley and the Royal Meteorological Society.
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Support for conflicts and world events
https://le.ac.uk/about/conflict-support
The University of Leicester is committed to supporting our staff, students, and wider community impacted by ongoing conflicts or world events across the globe.
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ELCAS funding for members of the Armed Forces
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/funding-sources/elcas
If you are a current or former member of the UK armed forces then you may be eligible for Ministry of Defence Enhanced Learning Credit Scheme (ELCAS) funding for your distance learning course.
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Claire's dissertation
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/dissertations/claire
Read about Claire’s dissertation, Sanitized City, Sanitized History: A study into how the Italian Fascist regime engineered the narrative of Rome.
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Punk project supported by University of Leicester expert nominated for major National Lottery Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/punk
A University of Leicester-supported, acclaimed exhibition celebrating the UK’s punk scene has been nominated for a National Lottery Award 2023.
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First confirmed neutron star merger re-appears from behind the Sun
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/first-confirmed-neutron-star-merger-emerges-from-behind-the-sun
A research team including astronomers and astrophysicists at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first confirmed neutron star merger to re-appear from behind the glare of the Sun.