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University buildings renamed after English Premier League Champions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-buildings-renamed-after-english-premier-league-champions
For one day only our University will rename its buildings after the Leicester City Football squad in celebration of their remarkable Premier League success and to show its support on the day of the team’s victory parade.
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Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside
University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock
Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).
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Origins of Pepyss famous diary unravelled
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/origins-of-pepys2019s-famous-diary-unravelled
The diary of the seventeenth-century cultural icon Samuel Pepys - which contains references to bribery, illicit sex, and criticisms of powerful men – has an enduring legacy, and Dr Kate Loveman from the School of English will be unravelling why it was written at an event at...
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Paralympic Gold for Leicester sports scholar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/nick-cummins-paralympics-gold
University of Leicester History PhD student and sports scholar Nick Cummins has won Gold as part of Great Britain’s Wheelchair Rugby squad at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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Richard III geneticist to give Queens Lecture in Berlin
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/richard-iii-geneticist-to-give-queens-lecture-in-berlin
Dr Turi King from our Department of Genetics and School of Archaeology and Ancient History will give this year's Queen's Lecture in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday 1 November.
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Researchers identify July 16 1945 as key time boundary in the history of the Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/researchers-identify-july-16-1945-as-key-time-boundary-in-the-history-of-the-earth
Humans are having such a significant impact on the Earth that they are changing its geology, creating new and distinctive strata that will persist far into the future, according to Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Professor Mark Williams from the Department of Geology.
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Academic and adventurer describes climbing and cataloguing remote regions of the South American Andes mountains
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/academic-and-adventurer-describes-climbing-and-cataloguing-remote-regions-of-the-south-american-andes-mountains
Dr Suzie Imber from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is giving a talk about a unique adventure which saw her scale and catalogue a remote corner of the Andes mountains.
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Where is the help for victims of hate?
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/hate-crime
Improving policy and practice by leading research into what lies behind the official hate crime figures.
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University of Leicester among 10 world universities to join campaign for gender equality in the workplace
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/university-of-leicester-among-10-world-universities-to-join-campaign-for-gender-equality-in-the-workplace
Today (5 May), President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester Professor Paul Boyle has pledged his commitment to gender equality in the workplace and spearheaded the University’s involvement in a global campaign - the UN Women’s HeForShe solidarity movement.