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Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/infrastructure-innovation
The ninth Sustainable Development Goal is to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
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Centres and Institutes
https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/centres-and-institutes
Centre for Landscape and Climate Research The aim of the CLCR is to understand interactions of the water cycle with ecosystems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
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Leicester event to debate HE autonomy issues in Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-event-to-debate-he-autonomy-issues-in-europe
Few would argue that in order to be successful, universities need autonomy. They must be able to take their own decisions, and the academics working within them must have the freedom to pursue their research.
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Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/top-5-covid-research-studies
One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.
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University involved in project to help children with asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-involved-in-project-to-help-children-with-asthma
Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company, has announced it has developed and received CE mark approval for a paediatric version of the company’s disease breathalyzer, ReCIVA™, which is now being used in EMBER (the East Midlands Breathomics Pathology Node).
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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Prestigious grant powers research into revolutionary battery technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prestigious-grant-powers-research-into-revolutionary-battery-technology
Research by our Department of Chemistry into alternatives to conventional batteries has been boosted by funding from the European Union.
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Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/yellowstone
A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event.
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Formulating start-up strategy
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ch2801
Module code: CH2801 This module will introduce you to the aspects required to start up a venture, such as identifying customers, considering who the stakeholders are and looking at the critical needs of a business before - and in the early stages of - creation.
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2 million support for new Complex Reviews Support Unit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/ps2-million-support-for-new-complex-reviews-support-unit
A consortium of researchers from around the UK, including the University of Leicester, has been awarded £2million to provide support in areas of research that require complex methodological approaches to evidence-based medicine.