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Unique exceptionally preserved fossil named in honour of Sir David Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/unique-2018exceptionally-preserved2019-fossil-named-in-honour-of-sir-david-attenborough
An international team of scientists led by our University has discovered a new 430 million-year-old fossil and has named it in honour of Sir David Attenborough – who grew up on the University campus.
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Tree-mendous effort from Tom and his volunteers helps transform Leicester’s leafy oasis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/arboretum
A green oasis of calm nestled away in suburban Leicester is benefiting from the work of one University of Leicester man and his small band of volunteers.
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Leicester schools and community invited to celebrate Earth Day at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/earth-day-space-park
The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at Space Park Leicester is hosting a range of activities for both local schools and the broader Leicester community on 22 April
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UCEA announces Professor Nishan Canagarajah as new chair
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/ucea-announces-professor-nishan-canagarajah-chair
University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has been appointed chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA).
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Posters from the Irish Civil Rights movement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/27/posters-from-the-irish-civil-rights-movement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 27, 2020 A new online exhibition from the Working Class Movement Library It includes images from 1969 posters made in Belfast and by London Poster Workshop.
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Medicine with Foundation Year MBChB
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medicine-with-foundation-year-mbchb/2026
Medicine degrees aren’t easy to get into. But this doesn’t mean becoming a doctor is out of the question. If it looks like you won’t meet the entry requirements to study medicine at Leicester, this Foundation Year degree is your path to making it happen.
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New observations reveal Jupiters Great Red Spot as mysterious energy source
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-observations-reveal-jupiter2019s-great-red-spot-as-mysterious-energy-source
Researchers from the University of Leicester and Boston University’s (BU) Center for Space Physics report today in Nature that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet’s upper atmosphere to the unusually high values...
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Untold stories of the Holocaust South Russias largest city to be explored at exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/untold-stories-of-the-holocaust-south-russias-largest-city-to-be-explored-at-exhibition
A new exhibition organised by the University of Leicester will shed light on the untold wartime events in occupied Russia’s largest Holocaust site, Rostov-on-Don – including the discovery of a previously unknown Nazi prisoner of war camp.
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The Business of Bikes, and Cycling for England
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/09/11/the-business-of-bikes-and-cycling-for-england/
Posted by csmith in School of Business Blog on September 11, 2017 Charlotte Smith, a lecturer at ULSB and world class cyclist, discusses the tensions between amateurism and commercialism in the world of international cycling.
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University celebrates a beauti-fall AutumnFest at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/autumn
More than 1,800 people came together at the Botanic Garden on Saturday (30 September) to celebrate the University’s inaugural AutumnFest