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New website highlights our local impact
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/new-csr-website-highlights-universitys-local-impact
The University of Leicester contributes significantly to the city of Leicester, the surrounding county of Leicestershire and further afield.
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Centre for Hate Studies launches new suite of digital training on hate and extremism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/24-hate-studies-digital-training-extremism
The Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester has developed a new, free-of-charge suite of digital training modules on hate and extremism.
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University of Leicester to name building after archaeology pioneer, Dame Kathleen Kenyon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/building-named-archaeology-pioneer-kathleen-kenyon
The Dame Kathleen Kenyon Building is the University of Leicester's first academic building named after a woman.
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Donation will advance ground-breaking work taking place to help those at risk of sudden cardiac death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/lifemap
Heart experts at the University of Leicester have been awarded £400,000 to advance their work on a technique to assess a patient’s risk of sudden cardiac death
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Peatland protection
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/peatland-protection
Peatlands around the world are being destroyed to make way for plantation development, logging and mining.
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Professor Jayne Marshall
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/edi-in-practice/walk-with-women/jayne-marshall
Learn more about Professor Jayne Marshall, a Foundation Professor of Midwifery in the College of Life Sciences.
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Giant storms cause palpitations in Saturns atmospheric heartbeat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/giant-storms-cause-palpitations-in-saturn2019s-atmospheric-heartbeat
Immense northern storms on Saturn can disturb atmospheric patterns at the planet’s equator, finds the international Cassini mission in a study led by Dr Leigh Fletcher from our Department of Physics and Astronomy and published in Nature Astronomy.
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Leicester research is cover story of science journal
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-research-is-cover-story-of-science-journal
A study led by scientists at our University is featured on the cover of an online science journal.
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Finalist positions for our University and College Court in local and national tourism hospitality awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/finalist-positions-for-our-university-and-college-court-in-local-and-national-tourism-hospitality-awards
Our University has been shortlisted in no less than nine categories for awards that recognise leading tourism and hospitality organisations, at both a local and national level.
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Experts respond to triggering of Article 50 and Brexit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/experts-respond-to-triggering-of-article-50-and-brexit
Over the last year, academics from across the University have been discussing Brexit and the future of the UK once we leave the European Union. Today, Prime Minister Theresa May has triggered Article 50, which will commence Brexit negotiations that could last for up to two years.