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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Career opportunities and events
https://le.ac.uk/media/study/undergraduate/careers/opportunities-events
Find out about careers events and opportunities available to you as a student within Media and Communication at Leicester, including work placements, mentoring and interview workshops.
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University of Leicester Monopoly game needs suggestions from Community Chest
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-of-leicester-monopoly-game-needs-suggestions-from-community-chest
Would you be tempted to buy the Percy Gee Building for £300? Perhaps you’d rather build on the Bennett Building than Bond Street? Or think that our Oadby campus would benefit from a hotel – after you have built four houses there already, of course.
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Leicester celebrates World Book Night
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-celebrates-world-book-night
To celebrate World Book Night, this year the University successfully applied to be a volunteer institution, and hand out out books to share a love of reading with those in the local community Since 2011, over two million books have been given away by thousands of...
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Roman Archaeology Conference 2022 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2022/05/22/roman-archaeology-conference-in-split-croatia-5th-9th-april-2022/
Professor Penelope Allison shares her experience of the 2022 RAC-TRAC conference in Split Croatia.
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Arctic eco-thriller White Road by Dr Harry Whitehead released
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/white-road-new-novel-harry-whitehead
White Road, the new novel by the University of Leicester's Dr Harry Whitehead has been published today. Set in the Canadian Arctic, White Road is a gripping eco-thriller about an oil rig that explodes just as winter is setting in.
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Leicester research cited in Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leicester-research-cited-in-parliament
Excellent research from our University which has gone on to inform and shape Government reports has been cited in Parliament.
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Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/hs3682
Module code: HS3682
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Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3682
Module code: HS3682
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Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3682
Module code: HS3682