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Vice-Chancellor speaks out on gender inequality in universities at international conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/vice-chancellor-speaks-out-on-gender-inequality-in-universities-at-international-conference
Our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has addressed the issue of gender inequality in universities at an international conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite
Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.
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Take a visual tour of womens influence throughout University history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/take-a-visual-tour-of-women2019s-influence-throughout-university-history
From the first female students in 1921, to the first black female president of the Students’ Union in 1975, to the present day, women have played a vital role in our University's history, an exhibition currently being held at the Library reveals.
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Academic year: 2020-2021
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/20-21
Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events being held in academic year 2020-2021.
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New advance announced in fight against Alzheimers and Parkinsons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-advance-announced-in-fight-against-alzheimers-and-parkinsons
A five-year study by an international team led by Leicester has found a way of ‘reversing’ symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – using fruit flies as test subjects.
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Key deadlines
https://le.ac.uk/graduation/dates-times/key-deadlines
Find out key dates to: register for University of Leicester graduation, order academic dress (gown hat and hood), and request additional guest tickets.
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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Guilty or not guilty Public will decide during interactive forensic science event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/guilty-or-not-guilty-public-will-decide-during-interactive-forensic-science-event
Members of the public will be deciding the outcome of two realistic criminal trials based on two real murder cases as part of an exciting interactive event during the Cheltenham Science Festival (5 – 10 June).
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University of Leicester gives entrepreneurial graduate Anuj the space to expand his start-up
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/anuj-ashar
An entrepreneur who founded a tech start-up while still a student at the University of Leicester has relocated the award-winning business to his old campus.
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Expert opinions cover ants Russian cyber techniques and the UK sex industry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/expert-opinions-cover-ants-russian-cyber-techniques-and-the-uk-sex-industry
In an article for The Conversation, Dr Rob Hammond and PhD candidate Charlie Durant from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology have discussed how scientists are on the hunt for new ways to attack harmful microbes.