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Could human tissue be used by researchers in place of animal models
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/could-human-tissue-be-used-by-researchers-in-place-of-animal-models
Professor Peter Bradding from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation is involved in a research project examining how to expand the use of human lung tissue to reduce the use of animal tissue in research.
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Study suggests human impact has created a plastic planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-human-impact-has-created-a-2018plastic-planet2019
Planet Earth’s oceans and lands will be buried by increasing layers of plastic waste by the mid-century due to human activity, according to research led by researchers from the Department of Geology.
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Leicester students crack mystery of Rudolph’s red nose
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/rudolph-redshift
Of all Santa Claus’ reindeer, Rudolph is best known for his bright red nose. But just how fast would he need to travel for his nose to shine its famous scarlet colour? Students at the University of Leicester have discovered the answer.
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Academic year: 2006-2007
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/06-07
Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events, held in 2006-2007.
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Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3184
Module code: EN3184 Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, major (and popular) twentieth-century novelists, were both Catholic converts. She came from a half-Jewish working-class Edinburgh home, he from the Hampstead literati.
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Leicester Law School professor shortlisted for Law Teacher of the Year Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/law-teacher-of-the-year
University of Leicester’s Professor Kimberley Brayson has been shortlisted for the prestigious OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award 2023.
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Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts in panel debate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/former-universities-and-science-minister-david-willetts-in-panel-debate
Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, who is an honorary graduate of our University and delivered the inaugural Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, is to return to campus to celebrate the official launch of his latest book, A University Education.
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Awards and collaborations
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/cpbe/about/awards-and-collaborations
Name Medal/award Professor Richard J. Aldridge Coke Medal, Geological Society of London, 2012 Professor Richard J.
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Spring seminar series 2011
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2011
Browse our 2011 spring seminar series in the Victorian Studies Centre.
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Innovative Leicester centre spearheads international initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/empathy-network
An international network which is driving forward empathic healthcare across the world has staged its first ever meeting in Leicester