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Leicester experts provide top tips for avoiding food poisoning when preparing Christmas dinner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leicester-experts-provide-top-tips-for-avoiding-food-poisoning-when-preparing-christmas-dinner
Many households around the world will be celebrating Christmas day with a turkey lunch – but the festive meal can be a hidden source of serious food infections unless precautions are taken, according to Dr Primrose Freestone and PhD student Giannis Koukkidis from the...
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Training the next generation of Black health data scientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/black-health-data
The University of Leicester has partnered with Health Data Research UK and BREATHE – The Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health to offer an internship programme providing paid work experience to future Black data scientists; a group currently under-represented within...
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Government funding for project to supply Africa with electricity from waste
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-pyropower-nigeria-electricity-waste
An Earth Observation Innovation team from the University of Leicester is collaborating with PyroGenesys Ltd. and a number of UK and international organisations on a project to generate off-grid electricity for remote rural communities in Africa starting with Nigeria.
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Sol 1 First Image of Mt. Sharp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/07/sol-0-first-image-of-mt-sharp/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 7, 2012 First Image of the 5.5 km high Mt. Sharp (HazCam), the ultimate target of Curiosity. Two of the Curiosity 50 cm diameter wheels are visible in the foreground.
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‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/01/one-of-the-most-remarkable-men-in-the-entire-history-of-archaeology/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...
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Ancient Antarctica reveals a ’one–two punch’ behind ice sheet collapse
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/ancient-antarctica-ice-sheet-collapse
University of Leicester geoscientist contributes to study showing impact of ocean warming on ice sheets, using results obtained from expedition to the Ross Sea in Antarctica
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The schoolboy sketches of John Leech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...
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Financial Economics and Banking BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/financial-economics-and-banking-bsc/2026
At Leicester’s School of Business you’ll study a broad range of topics across banking and finance and learn to apply economic theory in financial contexts.
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Receiving your student visa and travelling to the UK
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/identity-check-visa-checkpoint/visa-checkpoint/student-visa/receiving-visa
Find out more about receiving your student visa and travelling to the UK.
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The Alice Hawkins Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/05/the-alice-hawkins-collection/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 5, 2025 By Iona Kerstin Volynets 6 September 2025 From July 2009 to June 2010, a team of devoted volunteers at the LeicestHERday Trust gathered 150 interviews of prominent women from Leicestershire.