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Leicesters clinical trials expertise highlighted in international review
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester2019s-clinical-trials-expertise-highlighted-in-international-review
The UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Registered Clinical Trials Units Network has announced that 46 clinical trials units - including the University of Leicester’s Clinical Trials Unit - have been successfully registered following the 2017 Registration Review...
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Museum Studies students host an experiment in the Gallery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/museum-studies-students-host-an-experiment-in-the-gallery
An exhibition by students in our School of Museum Studies is being held in the Gallery at De Montfort University, the first public exhibition to result from a collaboration between our two local universities.
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University of Leicester create a book honouring Centenary donors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/golden-book
A book commemorating hundreds of University donors has been commissioned to mark the University of Leicester’s centenary.
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Chronic kidney disease associated with atypically low levels of physical activity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/10-kidney-research
A study led by researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University – has highlighted chronic levels of physical...
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Tackling trauma in the classroom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/09-tackling-trauma
Breaking Barriers. Refugee Week. 12-17 November 2018. 900|University of Leicester shines light on supporting refugees The University of Leicester is devoting a week to highlighting initiatives that support refugees and to celebrate their contribution to Leicester life.
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Summer Holidays
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/23/happy-holidays/
Blog post recalling Summer Holidays taken by people from Leicester and Leicestershire, as recorded in the East Midlands Oral History Archive
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New NERC-funded project to open up environmental science pathways for young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/nerc-funded-project-open-up-environmental-science-young-people
University of Leicester scientists are involved in a new project to help young people, schools and communities engage with environmental science, climate adaptation and future careers in the sector
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Leicester mathematician takes his research to Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/22-mathematician-research-parliament
Nicholas Williams, a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester, attended Parliament to present his mathematics research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges as part of STEM for Britain on Wednesday 13 March 2019.
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Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts in panel debate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/former-universities-and-science-minister-david-willetts-in-panel-debate
Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, who is an honorary graduate of our University and delivered the inaugural Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, is to return to campus to celebrate the official launch of his latest book, A University Education.