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Lifechanging scholarships announced at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/2018life-changing2019-scholarships-announced-at-leicester
The University has announced the names of its 2016 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholars. These students have been awarded Scholarships by the the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK to allow them to pursue a Master’s course while living in their home countries.
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The Planeterrella: an amazing polar light simulator
https://le.ac.uk/physics/outreach/the-planeterrella
The University of Leicester is home to a Planeterrella - a small vacuum chamber within which we recreate auroral lights around magnetic spheres, and visualise cosmic phenomena. Find out how your school can arrange a booking.
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Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study
A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges
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Contextualising Captain Scotts Echinoderm Collections at the Natural History Museum
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/contextualising-captain-scotts-echinoderm-collections-at-the-natural-history-museum
Captain Scott’s doomed expedition/Eddie Jenkins, MA Museum Studies
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First World War remembered
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war
With the support of Leicester Arts and Museums Services and the University of Leicester, over 300 interviews with those who lived through WWI in Leicestershire have been edited into sound clips and created into a collection. Find out more.
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Leicesters EU students boost local jobs and the economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicesters-eu-students-boost-local-jobs-and-the-economy
EU students at universities in Leicester and across the East Midlands generate £143m for the region’s economy and support 1,341 jobs, according to analysis from Universities UK. The new analysis looks at the impact of EU students across all regions and nations of the UK.
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ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/g-s-taylorweb/
ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor
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MS237/1/28
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/sloane2small/
MS237/1/28sellotape has yellowed and stained the pages. Image: Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
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Making a box for the Grant of Arms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/grantofarms4/
Apertures are cut for the seals. Image: Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
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Michelle Spiteri-Bailey
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/msb46/
The Rise of Sustainability Reporting Posted by Michelle Spiteri-Bailey in School of Business Blog on February 12, 2014 Michelle Spiteri-Bailey, PhD Student and recent award winning essayist at the School, insists that the rise in Business Ethics and Stakeholder Theory will...