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Engelbert Humperdinck receives new Seat of Learning tribute
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/engelbert-humperdinck-receives-new-seat-of-learning-tribute
Fans of Engelbert Humperdinck have honoured his 50 years in the music industry by sponsoring a reader's chair for the David Wilson Library.
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Expert comment Has the Olympic Games caught up with the modern world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-comment-has-the-olympic-games-caught-up-with-the-modern-world
Despite greater representation of women in the Rio Olympics than in previous years, anachronisms and gender divisions still remain, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.
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Work of prominent human rights defender to be explored
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/work-of-prominent-human-rights-defender-to-be-explored
A documentary about the work of the inspirational Dr Denis Mukwege, who provided medical care to tens of thousands of women raped during the 20 years of conflict in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be shown at our University Wednesday 4 May.
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LGBTQ Heritage in 2017
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/lgbtq-heritage-in-2017
Our University is working with the National Trust in 2017 as part of the nation’s commemoration to mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. LGBTQ heritage has an important place in the history of the conservation charity and the places in its care.
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Survey ranks Leicester among most cost effective universities at which to study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/survey-ranks-leicester-among-most-cost-effective-universities-to-study-at
A new survey that compares study-related expenses at universities includes the University of Leicester among the fifteen least expensive universities. The Daily Telegraph has reported on research conducted by the comparison website GoCompare.
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Markets, Risk and Corporate Reputation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mn3180
Module code: MN3180 This module explores how individuals and firms operate in various markets. We focus on disruption, crisis, risk, harm and the way in which firms and companies navigate these.
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Diagnostics and Sensing
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/chemistry-of-life/diagnostics-and-sensing
Learn more about diagnostics and sensing within our research theme of the chemistry of life in the School of Chemistry.
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Real-time Air Fingerprinting Technology (RAFT)
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/about/facilities/raft
The Real-time Air Fingerprinting Technology (RAFT) demonstrator deploys the University of Leicester’s expertise for measuring the trace composition (VOC/OVOC) of complex mixtures of gases in real-time.
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Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence
Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.
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New research shows link between BMI and depression
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/bmi-depression
New research by academics at the University of Leicester has found that your risk of depression increases with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) – which is bad news for those who have put on the dreaded ‘corona-stone’ during lockdown.