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University mathematicians calculate how Foxes won the English Premier League
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-mathematicians-calculate-how-foxes-won-the-english-premier-league
Mathematicians at the University have generated the perfect formula to describe the historic achievement of Leicester City Football Club who won the English Premier League with 5000-1 odds at the start of the season.
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University celebrates 50th anniversary of UKs first mass communication research centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-uks-first-mass-communication-research-centre
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.
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Leicester Professor among Top 50 Women in Engineering
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-professor-among-2018top-50-women-in-engineering2019
An inaugural list of the top 50 Women in Engineering, featuring Head of Engineering Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng (pictured) is published in the Daily Telegraph for the first time on 23 June 2016 to coincide with National Women in Engineering Day.
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Projects
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/projects
The Library is currently involved in two National Lottery Heritage Fund projects being led by our Archives and Special Collections team. Our History and Unlocking our Sound Heritage in partnership with the British Library.
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Tropical phages
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/bacteriophages/tropical-phages
Tropical phages/temperature dependent bacteriophages switch between lysogenic and lytic phases. At the university, research has been done on the tropical pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei which can cause melioidosis
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Decolonising the Pitt Rivers Collection
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/decolonising-the-pitt-rivers-collection
Séverine Toyon-Pope, MSc in Museum Studies While applying for my placement, there was little doubt what my first choice was.
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Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms
Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.
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Leicester scientists investigate link between air pollution and type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-scientists-investigate-link-between-air-pollution-and-type-2-diabetes
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from our University and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between air pollution and the rise in type 2 diabetes.
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Award for Leicester Law student
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/award-for-leicester-law-student
A research student at our University has won an international award - the Best Graduate Student Award at the ESCAS-CESS Conference. Khalida Azhigulova, a postgraduate student in the Leicester Law School, was recognised for her outstanding work.
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Leicester students create out of this world poetry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-students-create-out-of-this-world-poetry
A stellar poem written by a Leicester student has been launched into cyberspace.