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First-in-the-family Leicester students front national university campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/100-faces
Two trailblazing students who had their lives transformed by the University of Leicester have been chosen to front a national campaign promoting Higher Education.
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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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The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).
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Space Lates 2022: Get Into Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/16/space-lates-2022-backyard-astronomy/
Learn how you can get into astronomy at the National Space Centre's first Space Lates of 2022, 18:00-21:00, 14 January 2022.
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Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics achieve historic first in radioisotope heater unit safety testing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-perpetual-atomics-radioisotope-heater-unit-safety-testing
Success for University of Leicester and spinout company Perpetual Atomics Ltd as containment system undergoes impact test campaign and a leap forward for deployment of americium radioisotope power systems
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Actiphage blood test enters human TB trials
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/06-tuberculosis-blood-test-trial
A new blood test for tuberculosis (TB) could, for the first time, enable screening of patients at an early stage of infection.
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University of Leicester picks up two awards in VisitEnglands Awards for Excellence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-of-leicester-picks-up-two-awards-in-visitengland2019s-awards-for-excellence
The University of Leicester competed in national awards at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2016 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool where Attenborough Arts Centre and King Richard III Partnership won awards amongst the country’s elite tourism offers.
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Maths students help enhance East Midlands police forces
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/maths-police
A group of students from the University of Leicester have been helping police with their enquiries – but not in the way you might think. Six undergraduate Mathematics students have teamed up with forces in the East Midlands to enhance policing through efficiency analyses.
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Breaking the ice
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/17/breaking-the-ice/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 Welcome to the School of English blog! My hope is that this becomes a way of communicating with each other, with our students, with the wider university and with the outside world about the whole range of...