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Prestigious archaeology prize for Leicester graduate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/prestigious-archaeology-prize-for-leicester-graduate
The Association for Environmental Archaeology has announced that Leicester alumna Nora Battermann has won their John Evans Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. This year’s winners of the John Evans Prizes were announced at the Association’s annual conference in Rome.
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New Alzheimers Advance
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-alzheimer2019s-advance
Work done at Leicester has helped to identify a new drug target for not only improving symptoms of brain degeneration – but also to extend the life-span of the terminally ill mice.
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Child Poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/child-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 Through young eyes – three million children are living in poverty in the UK according to the Children’s Commission on Poverty survey published by the Children’s Society Also recently...
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Professor Stephen Wood to present research highlighting the importance of employee involvement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stephen-wood-presents-research-highlighting-the-importance-of-employee-involvement
The School of Management’s Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, will be speaking at a UKWON symposium on Bringing wellbeing, mental health and productivity together in the workplace of the future at E.
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Rethinking nuclear weapons strategies
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/nuclear-button
Our research has been influential in raising international awareness of nuclear threats, encouraging governments and policymakers to modernise their thinking.
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WGBH Openvault – Historic US TV and radio
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/wgbh-openvault-historic-us-tv-and-radio/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 Free access to clips from the WGBH Media Library and archives which includes TV and radio programmes many with transcripts.
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole
University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾.
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2001 - 2005
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2001-05
Expedition 310 Tahiti Sea Level Fall 2005 The IODP Tahiti Sea Level Expedition 310 in 2005 was initiated to investigate global sea level rise since the last glacial maximum, approximately 23,000 years ago, to learn more about the timing and course of past global sea level...
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The Boy Who Lived Students put the science of Harry Potters universe to the test
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students-put-the-science-of-harry-potter2019s-universe-to-the-test
In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele-Gro to repair broken bones.