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New book imagines society based on animal rights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/animal-rights-book
What are Animal Rights For? has been published by University of Leicester politics expert Dr Steve Cooke, explaining the nature, function, purpose, and limitations of animal rights for a public audience.
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Student of the Year nomination for University of Leicester engineer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/student-of-the-year-nomination
Third-year year Engineering student at the University of Leicester Samiksha Raviraja is one of five students shortlisted.
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University of Leicester economics student makes history with rowing Gold
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/lauren-henry-gold
Economics student Lauren Henry wins Gold at the Games in Paris
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Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd
The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.
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Leicester archaeology student shares passion for local history with fellow firefighters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/dig-fire
A watch manager in the Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is helping other firefighters in the region to get involved with archaeology.
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Space images confirm England’s drought areas correlate with high land surface temperatures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/space-drought-images
Earth Observation (EO) experts from the University of Leicester have highlighted the correlation between land surface temperatures and drought-affected areas of the United Kingdom using data captured from space.
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Expedition 340: Lesser Antilles Volcanism and Landslides
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2011-12/antilles
March – April 2012 The Lesser Antilles Volcanism and Landslides expedition was designed to provide a better understanding of the constructive and destructive processes related to volcanism along island arcs.
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Leicester scientists describe astronomical phenomenon never witnessed before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-scientists-describe-2018astronomical-phenomenon-never-witnessed-before2019
Researchers from our University have contributed to a simultaneous global announcement - in London, Washington DC, and Munich - of the discovery and results from the joint detection of gravitational waves and light from the collision of a pair of mutually...
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The face of a king
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/what-we-know-now/face-of-a-king
After the bones had been scanned, a 3D scan of the skull was sent to the University of Dundee where the muscles and skin were modelled using a computer process known as stereolithography.
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Richard III experts discuss how the project illustrates university research is changing for the better
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/richard-iii-research-team-discuss-how-the-project-illustrates-how-university-research-is-changing
Experts on Richard III have provided a series of insightful opinion pieces about the last Plantagenet king where they discuss their research, contemplate how University research is changing and address concerns that the remains may not be those of Richard III.