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• Carbon legacy goes up in smoke

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/carbon-legacy-goes-up-in-smoke

  It reads like a movie script – ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses, road closures trapping remote northern villages.

• Building work begins on 430000squarefoot Bible Museum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/building-work-begins-on-430-000-square-foot-bible-museum

  The eight-storey, 430,000-square-foot Museum of the Bible took a giant step toward its 2017 opening in Washington, D.C., beginning with surgical demolition of a 1982 addition to the historical building that will be reinvented as an international Bible museum.

• Careers launchpad for space industry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/careers-launchpad-for-space-industry

  The Second Annual Space Industry Careers Fair will take place on 9 February 2015 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. More than 150 students are expected, representing 38 different Universities and education institutions across the UK.

• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• Another Doctoral Grant success for School of Education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/another-doctoral-grant-success-for-school-of-education-phd-student

  Keke Zhang of the School of Education has been awarded a 2015 TOEFL Doctoral Research Grant for her research into the development and validation of a rating scale for assessing argumentative essays written by Chinese undergraduates in English programmes.

• New species of ancient tongue worm discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-species-of-ancient-tongue-worm-discovered

  An international team of scientists led by Leicester researchers has discovered a new species of fossil - a 'tongue worm' - in England and have identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder.

• University scientists involved in major international plant reproduction study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-scientists-involved-in-major-international-plant-reproduction-study

  Leicester is part of a major new study on the evolution of sexual reproduction in plants which has received 2.6 million euros in funding.

• Highlights from Universitys Richard III ceremony

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/image-highlights-from-richard-iii-ceremony

  A selection of photos from the ceremony on Sunday 22 March to mark the departure of the mortal remains of King Richard III from the University are now available to view.

• Research shows national parliaments in the UK and the Netherlands host highest number of MPs of immigrant origin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/research-shows-national-parliaments-in-the-uk-and-the-netherlands-host-highest-number-of-mps-of-immigrant-origin

  Key research findings about the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin (IO) in European national parliaments have been announced at an event in central London on Monday 15 February.

• Policing in multicultural cities to be explored

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/policing-in-multicultural-cities-to-be-explored

  Policing in multicultural cities will come under the spotlight during a public event at our University at 6pm on Monday 3 July.