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University of Leicester ranked in UK top three for COVID-19 research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-ranked-in-uk-top-three-for-covid-19-research
Leicester has been ranked as one of the top performing universities in the UK for COVID-19 research.
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The Bulletin - Leicester geology students record biggest ever Vardyquake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/the-bulletin-leicester-geology-students-record-biggest-ever-vardyquake
In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Hear how Leicester geology students discovered that fans at Leicester City's final home game of the season against Everton caused the biggest earth tremors ever recorded at the ground.
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School of Business academics are helping to shine a light on the work of Vietnamese designers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/school-of-business-academics-are-helping-shine-a-light-on-the-work-of-vietnamese-designers
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The University as a military hospital during the Great War
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/military-hospital
The University’s building now known as the Fielding Johnson Building was used as a military hospital during the First World War. Find out more about its wartime history.
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EMSYCAR
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/older-projects/emsycar
Find out more about the East Midlands & South Yorkshire Congenital Anomalies Register research at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester student mentored by ITV News Central wins Breaking Into News competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/leicester-student-mentored-by-itv-news-central-wins-breaking-into-news-competition
Sally Wynter from the Department of History of Art and Film has won the 2015 Breaking Into News initiative, run by ITV News and Media Trust. She won the competition after developing a news report that showed how a local charity was tackling homelessness.
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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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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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The Bulletin - Leicester academics involved in national stillbirth study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/the-bulletin-leicester-academics-involved-in-national-stillbirth-study
In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Hear about the study which has found ‘significant variation’ in stillbirths and neonatal mortality across the UK.
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Event to explore new insights into Jewish Holocaust survivors and their rescuers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/event-to-explore-new-insights-into-jewish-holocaust-survivors-and-their-rescuers
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their rescuers are the focus of a free public lecture taking place at our University on Tuesday 7 November.