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Record-breaking artist and successful technology entrepreneur gives University of Leicester graduates advice for life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/sam-barnett
A tech entrepreneur-turned-artist has returned to the University of Leicester to receive an honorary degree.
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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...
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Winning Poem Published by NASA-Chandra
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/02/04/winning-poem-published-by-nasa-chandra/
Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on February 4, 2016 Illustration Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J.
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Abdul Jabbar
https://le.ac.uk/people/abdul-jabbar
The academic profile of Dr Abdul Jabbar, Dean of Internationalisation, Associate Professor Data Strategy and Analytics
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Spend a year abroad
https://le.ac.uk/english/study/undergraduate/year-abroad
Several courses in English at the University of Leicester offer the opportunity of a year of studying abroad. Find out more about opportunities to study in Europe and America.
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First evidence for Julius Caesars invasion of Britain discovered by Leicester team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/first-evidence-for-julius-caesars-invasion-of-britain-discovered-by-leicester-team
The first evidence for Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain has been discovered by a team from our School of Archaeology and Ancient History. The findings will be explored as part of the BBC Four’s Digging For Britain on Wednesday 29 November at 9:00PM.
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News
https://le.ac.uk/geography/news
Take a look at what's happening in Geography at Leicester. Browse University and national news, or find stories published directly by our Geography team.
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The spacecraft that came before Juno
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/12/the-spacecraft-that-came-before-juno/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 12, 2016 The Juno spacecraft is not the first to visit Jupiter – this honour goes to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft back in December of 1973.
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Climbing Mount Sharp: From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2020/07/01/climbing-mount-sharp-from-warm-and-wet-to-cold-and-dry/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 1, 2020 Climbing Mt. Sharp from ancient lake deposits at the the base, to more desiccated, sulphate-rich deposits higher up the mountain.
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The story of skeletons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-story-of-skeletons
What links the narwhal’s tusk, ancient trilobites, Richard III (and his drinking habits), tumbleweed, an argonaut, and the outstretched fourth finger of a pterosaur? They are among the cast of characters that feature in a new book by University of Leicester professors Jan...