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Zoo poo might hold the secrets to new medical treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phages-dudley-zoo-poo
Scientists at the University of Leicester are hoping the collection of poo from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other exotic animals, could contain the secret to finding new medical treatments.
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Museum and Society
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society
Museum & Society was launched at the University of Leicester as an independent peer reviewed journal which brings together new writing by academics and museum professionals on the subject of museums. Find out more.
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Graduate returns to University of Leicester to collect award for an outstanding international career
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/graduate-university-leicester-award-outstanding-international-career
Dr Duncan Wood, Leicester Politics graduate, awarded honorary degree for global impact in international affairs, policy, and strategic leadership.
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Cybersecurity UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/cybersecurity-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords. You can download the top 100,000 from the National Cyber research centre.
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Two upcoming poetry events
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/11/11/two-upcoming-poetry-event/
Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on November 11, 2014 Science, Poetry and Creative Writing, 11-12.15pm on Sunday 16 November, Bristol Mercure Holland House.
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Study finds high blood sugar levels could lead to heart attack complications
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-finds-high-blood-sugar-levels-could-lead-to-heart-attack-complications
A team led by Dr Richard Rainbow from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences has demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which the level of sugar in your blood can affect the contraction of blood vessels, with potentially dangerous effects on the heart and...
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Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna
To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.
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Sir David Attenborough highlights destruction of the natural world within a generation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/sir-david-attenborough-highlights-destruction-of-the-natural-world-within-a-generation
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough opened a new £1.5million galleries wing at Attenborough Arts Centre – the building championed by his late brother Lord Attenborough.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/research
Explore the Materials Centre research including their past and current projects.
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Corporate Governance and Reporting
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/corporate-governance-and-reporting
Lead: Dr Min Yang We conduct cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on corporate governance, financial and climate reporting, ESG investing, auditing, and accountability across sectors.