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Outstanding alumni celebrated at University of Leicester awards dinner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/outstanding-alumni-awards-dinner
University of Leicester’s annual Alumni Awards Dinner held at the iconic National Space Centre in Leicester on 14 May, where generations of former students gathered to celebrate successes, including seven award winners
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Research highlights incredible insects during National Insect Week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018national-insect-week2019-creeps-up-on-us-once-more
The feature, revisiting four occasions where insects played an instrumental role in University research, can be found here Insects, bugs, creepy-crawlies - there are some who say they are not always the cutest critters, but they can certainly be one of the most useful and...
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Leicester grad part of team crowned champions of Britains first TV medical quiz show
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/leicester-grad-part-of-team-crowned-champions-of-britain2019s-first-tv-medical-quiz-show
Will Manning and Jon O’Doherty, both Leicester graduates, and James Richmond were the chosen three to put their skills and knowledge to the test as part of BBC 2's Britain’s Best Junior Doctors last week.
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Leicester researchers design and build instrument to explore the surface of Mercury
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-researchers-design-and-build-instrument-to-explore-the-surface-of-mercury
An instrument designed and built by Leicester researchers, which will help to unlock the secrets of Mercury’s surface, has been shipped from the Space Research Centre to the European Space Agency, where it will be integrated with the BepiColombo spacecraft which is...
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City son honoured by University of Leicester for public health leadership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/ivan
The University of Leicester has honoured one of the city’s own for his exceptional track record in public health leadership.
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Reimagining the Restoration: Samuel Pepys's diary and popular history
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/pepys-project
About the project Samuel Pepys’s lively diary of the 1660s describes major events such as the plague and the Great Fire of London, alongside his hectic private life.
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University of Leicester brings space back down to Earth for British Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-space
The sky’s the limit in Leicester as the University of Leicester brings some astronomical science to this week’s British Science Festival.
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DNA analysis
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/dna-analysis
Simply extracting the DNA from the remains wouldn’t tell us the identity of the individual. It requires comparing DNA from the skeletal remains with that of known relatives.
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Leicester and Juno
https://le.ac.uk/juno/leicester-and-juno
Find out more about Leicester and Juno at the University of Leicester.
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Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment
Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator