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• Pick your poison study examines the use of plant poison on prehistoric weaponry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/pick-your-poison-study-examines-the-use-of-plant-poison-on-prehistoric-weaponry

  Archaeologists have long believed that our ancestors used poisons extracted from plants such as foxgloves and hemlock to make their weapons more lethal and kill their prey more swiftly.

• Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earths climate half a billion years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/tiny-fossils-unlock-clues-to-earth2019s-climate-half-a-billion-years-ago

  An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester, has investigated Earth’s climate over half a billion years ago by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long.

• First global patient for kidney study recruited in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/first-global-patient-for-kidney-study-recruited-in-leicester

  A patient from Birmingham is the first person to be recruited into a new worldwide study to test new treatments for a potentially life-threatening kidney condition called IgA nephropathy.

• Opportunity to touch smell and taste a deconstructed medieval manuscript

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/opportunity-to-touch-smell-and-taste-a-2018deconstructed2019-medieval-manuscript

  A unique opportunity to experience a medieval manuscript as a sensory experience will be taking place at the University.

• Esteemed academics from top UK universities to take part in Black in Academia panel event at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/esteemed-academics-from-top-uk-universities-to-take-part-in-2018black-in-academia2019-panel-event-at-leicester

  An upcoming event at the University of Leicester will see some of Britain’s leading academic minds take part in a discussion on equality in Higher Education on Thursday 26 October.

• Quality assurance

  https://le.ac.uk/ulas/about/quality-assurance

  As a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) and alongside the reputation we have been building for over 25 years, ULAS provides a quality assured service.

• University of Leicester sets strategy to launch into its second Century

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/strategy

  The University of Leicester has today (Thursday) launched a new 10-year strategy that will propel the institution into its second Century – and it comes with a new mission and vision that champion its Citizens and cultivates a legacy of real-world change.

• Health and safety induction

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/estates-and-campus/contractors/induction

  Browse the Contractors health and safety induction, including a YouTube video, induction signing sheet and code of practice.

• Leicester supports post-COVID regional recovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/uuk-getting-results

  The University of Leicester is working with employers, partners and local leaders to help support post-COVID regional recovery in the East Midlands, by encouraging skills growth, create jobs and help retain expertise and knowledge within the area.

• £1.5m funding to create ‘Digital Twin’ model to reduce methane emissions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/methane-tropical-wetlands

  A ‘Digital Twin’ for methane emissions from tropical wetlands will be supported by funding to Dr Robert Parker from the University of Leicester and the National Centre for Earth Observation as part of the Future Leaders Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation