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Student nurse clinches prestigious award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/nursing
Amber Fletcher from the University of Leicester has won the Student Nurse of the Year Mental Health category at the 2024 Student Nursing Times Awards
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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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University of Leicester announces collaboration with Leicestershire-based gin company Burleighs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/distillers-in-the-making
University of Leicester Chemistry students make their own gin Twelve of the University’s talented science students worked alongside Burleighs Gin Head Distiller, Edward Gibson, to experiment with how they could create new and innovative flavours of gin.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Emoji is the fastest growing language
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode and the launch of Emoj.li.
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Pre-clinical models enabling drug and biomarker discovery
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/research/pre-clinical-models-enabling-drug-and-biomarker-discovery
Research theme leads: Professor Catrin Pritchard and Dr Gareth Miles Academic research theme members: Professor Karen Brown Professor Martin Dyer Dr Sam Khan Dr Esther Moss Dr Alessandro Rufini Dr Cristina Tufarelli The Explant...
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Postgraduate programmes
https://le.ac.uk/biological-sciences/study/postgraduate
The University of Leicester's College of Life Sciences offers a range of postgraduate programmes in Biological Sciences, including areas like Bioinformatics, Forensics and Cancer. Find out more about these postgraduate programmes.
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Evidence of 2,000 years of human activity found on market site in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/evidence-2000-years-human-activity-market
University of Leicester Archaeological Services carrying out excavations at the site of the city’s new market square, with discoveries including a Roman infant burial and remains of a dungeon believed to be from the 16th century
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Schrödinger’s Cat and the Hidden Feelings Box: PSHE and RSHE Education in a Digital World
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2025/07/14/schrodingers-cat-and-the-hidden-feelings-box-pshe-and-rshe-education-in-a-digital-world/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on July 14, 2025 Michelle O’Reilly, Diane Levine, Neil Sinclair, and Sarah Adams c What if being kind online is harder not because children don’t care — but because they can’t see inside...
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Tellurium (Te) and Selenium (Se) (TeaSe)
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/volcanoes/projects/tease
Learn about the Tellurium (Te) and Selenium (Se) project in The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester.