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                    Leicester City Graduate Project earns FSB local government prizehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/city-graduate-project-award A flagship internship scheme encouraging students from Leicester’s two universities to stay and work in the city after they graduate has been recognised as one of the best regional initiatives at a national award ceremony. 
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                    Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest visionhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time 
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                    Neptune is cooler than we thought: Study reveals unexpected changes in atmospheric temperatureshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/04/11/neptune-is-cooler-than-we-thought-study-reveals-unexpected-changes-in-atmospheric-temperatures/ New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have unexpectedly fluctuated over the past two decades. 
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                    First JWST Images – What do they Show?https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/07/14/first-jwst-images-what-do-they-show/ Professor Martin Barstow wrote in the Conversation to explain what JWST's first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy. 
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                    Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary auroraehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/08/saturns-high-altitude-winds-generate-an-extraordinary-aurorae/ Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. 
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                    Schoolchildren to create bags to hold bones of Richard IIIhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/school-children-to-create-bags-to-hold-bones-of-richard-iii Pupils at King Richard III Infant School are playing an historic part in the reinterment of Richard III by creating special bags that will hold small bones - such as those from his hands - which will then be laid inside the coffin. 
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                    Leicester researchers to speak at Documentary Media Month eventshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-researchers-to-take-part-in-documentary-media-month-events Leicester researchers will be holding a series of events as part of Documentary Media Month, taking place throughout the month of November and organised by citizen journalist John Coster. 
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                    Professor John Bridges involved in two missions to Marshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/professor-john-bridges-involved-in-two-missions-to-mars An exploratory mission to Mars which will give Space Research Centre planetary scientists vital information about potential landing sites for the upcoming ExoMars project launched from Kazakhstan today. 
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                    Funerals and Memorial Serviceshttps://le.ac.uk/medicine/about/body-donation-programme/procedure/funeral-arrangements If you have been accepted onto the Body Donation Programme, after you have arrived at the University following your death, your next of kin/executor will be offered certain options for your eventual funeral. Learn more about our funerals and our Memorial Service. 
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                    Visiting the Universityhttps://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/mature-students/visiting-the-university We hold Open Days (for potential applicants) and UCAS Visit Days (for those who have applied and received an offer) to provide you with all the information you will need.