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Unity is our strength why it is vital to stay in the EU
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unity-is-our-strength-2013-why-it-is-vital-to-stay-in-the-eu
Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West and Labour's East Midlands EU Champion visited the University of Leicester’s new Centre for Medicine, which is part-funded by the European Union.
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€1.5 million award to study birth of planets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant
Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).
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Students in national top 5 for global mental health volunteering
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/students-in-national-top-5-for-mental-health-volunteering
As of 2018, our University is the 4th highest academic institution in the UK for student sign-ups to international volunteering placements with mental health-focused organisation SLV.Global. SLV.
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Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics
The study was led by Dr Isabel Sauermilch, researcher at the University of Tasmania and Utrecht University, and shows that these events were much more closely linked than previously thought.
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Waugh in Italy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2018/12/13/waugh-in-italy/
Review of Return to Waugh event hosted by the British Council, Milan, 17 November 2018, by Milena Borden
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Our environment over a billion years: travel through time into Leicester’s deep past
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/time-travelling-environmentalist
Experts at the University of Leicester host an evening exploring landscape change and biodiversity in the city and county on Thursday 23 March
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Leicester co-founds UK Nuclear Deterrence Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-founder-member-uk-nuclear-deterrence-network
The University of Leicester has joined partners to launch a network which will examine and assess nuclear deterrence and inform UK nuclear policy.
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HyPIR Lecturer provides testimony to Parliaments Brexit Committee on Galileo programme and UK space policy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/hypir-lecturer-provides-testimony-to-parliament2019s-brexit-committee-on-galileo-programme-and-uk-space-policy
On Wednesday 9 May Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations at HyPIR, provided oral testimony at a hearing of the UK Parliament’s House of Commons Exiting the EU Select Committee.
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The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby to speak on Work Wealth and Human Flourishing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-reverend-canon-angela-tilby-to-speak-on-2018work-wealth-and-human-flourishing2019
The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby (pictured) will present this year’s Provost Derek Hole Annual Lecture which will take place in the Rattray Lecture Theatre on Thursday 3 December at 5.30pm and is free and open to the public.
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Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/phage-research
The National Phage Centre in Leicester aims to solve pressing medical and agricultural needs through multidisciplinary research.