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Film highlights experiences of children in the Calais Jungle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-hosts-film-highlighting-plight-of-children-in-the-calais-jungle
Calais Children: a Case to Answer, a film which highlights the plight of almost 2,000 lone children who were in the Calais ‘Jungle’ when it was burnt down at the end of 2016, will be screened in the Attenborough Film Theatre at the University of Leicester on Monday 21 May...
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College Court wins national hotel award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/college-court-wins-national-hotel-award
College Court, the University’s multi-award winning conference centre and hotel, has recently been awarded ‘Conference Hotel of the Year’. The venue was shortlisted for the award following nominations by their clients.
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Researcher awarded grant to explore the international impact of attempts to change how antibiotics are prescribed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/researcher-awarded-grant-to-explore-the-international-impact-of-attempts-to-change-how-antibiotics-are-prescribed
A researcher from our University has been awarded a prestigious Research Councils grant to study antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a new perspective.
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Researchers suggest targeting freshers could halt spread of meningitis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/researchers-suggest-targeting-freshers-could-halt-spread-of-meningitis
A campaign targeted at students arriving at university for the first time could hold the key to reducing the spread of meningitis and septicaemia, say researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.
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Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms
Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.
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Leicester scientists investigate link between air pollution and type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-scientists-investigate-link-between-air-pollution-and-type-2-diabetes
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from our University and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between air pollution and the rise in type 2 diabetes.
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University of Leicester Mathematician accorded title of Pioneer at International Conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/university-of-leicester-mathematician-accorded-title-of-pioneer-at-international-conference
Professor Alexander Gorban, a mathematician from our University, has been accorded the title of Pioneer of Russian Neuroinformatics.
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Leicester Lecture to examine profound impact of current global trends on future health and medical care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-lecture-lecture-to-examine-2018profound2019-impact-of-current-global-trends-on-future-health-and-medical-care
Our prestigious Frank May Clinical Sciences Lecture series will feature the forthcoming lecture 'How health in the U.K. will change over the next 20 years; the good and the bad' on 23 October.
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Protests against Trump in Britain may well signal the beginning of a new wave of AntiBrexit mobilisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/201cprotests-against-trump-in-britain-may-well-signal-the-beginning-of-a-new-wave-of-anti-brexit-mobilisation201d
Dr Fabian Frenzel (pictured), from the University of Leicester’s School of Business, has suggested that the recent protests against President Trump’s travel ban, seen across the UK, could signal a new wave of Anti-Brexit mobilisation.
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How a technological revolution is helping us to understand the human Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/how-a-technological-revolution-is-helping-us-to-understand-the-human-y-chromosome
Professor Mark Jobling (pictured) from the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has published a new review in Nature Reviews Genetics with a colleague from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge which examines the properties of the human Y chromosome and...