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Refugee Week: 17 to 23 June 2019
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/13-refugee-week-university-of-sanctuary
The University of Leicester’s Refugee Week, from 17 to 23 June 2019, is part of the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees to British society through a programme of arts, culture and education.
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Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.
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University entrepreneurs win place on innovative VentureVersity accelerator programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/ventureversity-teams
Judges choose the 11 teams to join first VentureVersity Commercialisation Accelerator, turning academic ideas into reality. Businesses, students, academics and entrepreneurs have joined forces in first-of-its-kind collaboration to help bring more university spin outs to market.
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New space missions to explore suns’ influence on habitable worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/sirius-elfen
Two proposals for missions led by the University of Leicester receive £500,000 funding from UK Space Agency
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United Nations Day 2024: United for climate action
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/un-day
Professor Heiko Balzter, Director of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester, reflects on the United Nations’ (UN) critical role in fighting climate change.
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Burgeoning businesses born from VentureVersity programme are put to the test
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/ventureversity-event
The University of Leicester recently hosted a pivotal event that united academics and the business community to drive the commercialisation of groundbreaking ideas.
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University of Leicester researcher is finalist for prestigious heritage award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/10-researcher-is-finalist-for-prestigious-heritage-award
PhD researcher from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History Mark Webb shortlisted for 2018 Historic England Angel Award
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Supplier Payment Performance Data
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/professional-services/finance/customers-and-suppliers/supplier-payment-performance-data
Financial Year Invoices paid within 30 days of invoice date Invoices paid within 37 days of invoice date The amount of interest paid to supplier due to a breach of the requirement in regulation 113 ...
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Distance Learning (DL) Sanctuary Awards
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/dl-sanctuary
What are the DL Sanctuary Awards? We recognise that forced displacement creates significant barriers to accessing higher education.
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Surnames and the Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome
Research Fellow: Dr Turi King - Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain and lead researcher on the Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England project In Britain, we have heritable surnames.