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Attenborough Arts Centre Presents: Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/exhibition
Attenborough Art Centre’s latest exhibition challenges expectations of landscape painting and invites visitors to ‘think outside the box’.
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Successful flight for aircraft carrying Leicesters pioneering NO2 scanner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/successful-flight-for-aircraft-carrying-leicester2019s-pioneering-no2-scanner
Our University has successfully carried out the flight of an aircraft equipped with pioneering space technology to measure air pollution, in particular nitrogen dioxide (NO2), in the environment.
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Leicester part of partnership bringing world-class expertise to benefit patients and populations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/leicester-part-of-partnership-bringing-world-class-expertise-to-benefit-patients-and-populations
Health Data Research UK is awarding £30 million funding to six sites across the UK - including our University - to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science.
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Fear Across Borders: Peasant Violence and Anti-Semitism in Russia, Romania and Austria-Hungary
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/fear-across-borders
Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowship October 2013 – September 2016 Dr Irina Marin Fear across Borders is a postdoctoral project which examines the proliferation and interconnection of peasant unrest and anti-Semitic violence along the triple border between Tsarist Russia,...
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Swift satellite spots its thousandth gamma-ray burst
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/swift-satellite-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst
Leicester scientists are celebrating the discovery of the 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB) by the US/UK/Italian Swift spacecraft. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole.
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University of Leicester launches ‘inspirational’ mental health guide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/26-mental-health-guide-yellow-book
An 'inspirational' guide featuring positive poetry and artwork by staff and students from the University of Leicester will be launched next month at a free event to help spread the positive mental wellbeing message.
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University of Leicester supports World Tuberculosis Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/22-world-tb-day
Scientists from the University of Leicester help promote important public health message about tuberculosis (TB) for World TB Day on Sunday 24 March.
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Leicester students win Bronze medal in tough Military Patrol Competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/18-leicester-win-bronze-in-tough-patrol-competition
Student Army Patrol competition winners Student patrol competition winners|A team including students from the University of Leicester won a prize at one of the hardest military events in the world.
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Boost for international student support
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/29-launch-of-new-international-partnership
Navitas CEO Scott Jones and Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah formally open the University of Leicester Global Study Centre.
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Ever wondered why laughter is good for you?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/sluckin-lecture-psychology-vision
World-leading neuroscientist and stand-up comedian, Professor Sophie Scott, CBE (University College London), is bringing her unique perspective on the science of humour to Leicester this month (May).