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International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths returns for its second year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/avoidable-deaths-network
Read more information about Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths
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Carbon dating and analysis
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/carbon-dating
How old are the bones found under the Greyfriars church? Clearly they can’t be any more recent than the Dissolution of 1538. But if they are earlier than 1485, then they can’t be Richard’s remains.
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Adrian building
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/adrian-building
Formally opened in 1968, the Adrian Building was the home of Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys’ historic discovery of genetic fingerprinting in September 1984.
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Survey aims to address research challenges for pharmacists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/pharmacy-survey
A nationwide survey, led by the University of Leicester, has been launched to explore the challenges faced by pharmacy professionals to lead and deliver research
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New Leicester study reveals hidden heart risks in women with Type 2 Diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/heart-women-diabetes-leicester
Women with type 2 diabetes are nearly twice as likely as men to have hidden heart damage, according to a major new study by Leicester researchers.
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As billionaires descend on Davos, Oxfam uses University of Leicester project to illustrate obscene levels of wealth inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/billionaires-davos-oxfam-university-leicester-project-illustrate-wealth-inequality
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam has turned to a University of Leicester research project to communicate obscene levels of wealth inequality.
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BAME academics are “chronically absent”, says Leicester Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-scholarships
Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) academics are “chronically absent” in higher education, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Leicester Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has said. His comments come as the University of Leicester today launches an £1.
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Leicester scientists discover precious metals in Mordor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/mordor
Two geologists from the University of Leicester have found gold, along with copper, tellurium and other metals in a geological locality in Australia, referred to as the Mordor Igneous Complex - named after its uncanny resemblance to the location from the Lord of the Rings...
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Urgent action needed to tackle racial harassment in universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/racial-harrassment
Urgent action is needed to tackle racial harassment in universities because students are being let down, Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah has said.
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Bradgate Park Fieldschool
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/bradgate-park-fieldschool
Our fieldschool held annually between 2015 and 2019 This major student training and research excavation project focuses on the upland landscape of Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.