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Leicester professor judges space travel competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition
Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.
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Space and cyber security
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/space-and-cyber-security
Dr Bleddyn E.
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Genetic properties help identify illegally traded tropical hardwood
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/genetic-properties-help-identify-illegally-traded-tropical-hardwood
Around 30-90 percent of all tropical hardwood is logged illegally. Checks on the origin of wood, however thorough, are not particularly effective because documentation may be fraudulent.
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What can we do to address the harms of hate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/what-can-we-do-to-address-the-harms-of-hate
Hate crimes constitute one of the biggest global challenges of our time and blight the lives of millions of people across the world.
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Leicester ranked in Europe’s top 100 innovative universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-reuters-top-100
The University of Leicester is ranked 76th in Reuters Europe’s Most Innovative Universities Ranking, equivalent to 16th in the UK.
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Leicester PhD student to discuss science diplomacy at World Science Forum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-phd-student-to-discuss-science-diplomacy-at-world-science-forum
As part of her RCUK policy fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Emmeline Ledgerwood (pictured), a postgraduate research student at the School of History, Politics and International Relations, is representing POST at the World Science...
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Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon
An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.
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Colombias worldleading approach to higher education and research affords opportunities for UK academics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/colombias-world-leading-approach-to-higher-education-and-research-affords-opportunities-for-uk-academics
Professor Paul van Gardingen (pictured), Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International and Development Research at our University, was part of a delegation of academics working at institutions across the UK recently sent to Colombia to build research links in the Latin...
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What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3620
Module code: HS3620 The Great War, later known as the First World War, is frequently seen as the first of a particular and new kind of conflict. The first industrialised ‘total’ war whose impact was felt on an unprecedented scale - and was global in scope.
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The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar3085
Module code: AR3085 Colonialism and its legacies structure the modern world today, both at home and further afield, responsible for inequalities in wealth and opportunity, attitudes to race and gender, configurations of power and knowledge.