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Sporting Leicester students to represent Great Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/sporting-leicester-students-to-represent-great-britain
Not one but two Leicester students will be representing Great Britain in international sporting events this summer. The selected students are Ryan Hunt, currently in his second year in Interdisciplinary Science, and Kieran Slater from Physics & Astronomy.
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Tribute to architect behind iconic Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/tribute-to-architect-behind-iconic-engineering-building
The architect James Gowan, who co-designed the University of Leicester’s Engineering Building, has died aged 92. He formed a partnership with James Stirling in the 1950s the results of which included our Engineering Building, completed in 1963.
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Alex George
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/alex-george
Dr Alex George, Youth Mental Health Ambassador and former competitor on the TV series Love Island, delivered a special presentation on mental health support to students as part of the series of 'Citizens in Residence' events organised to mark our centenary year.
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Governments more likely to be responsive when strong public opposition is voiced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/governments-more-likely-to-be-responsive-when-strong-public-opposition-is-voiced
Governments often ignore public opposition to their policies but they are far less likely to do so when public opinion is strongly and consistently expressed through surveys and on the streets, says a University of Leicester Politics expert.
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Activities and events
https://le.ac.uk/wordsworth-2020/events
Find out about past events and future events for the Wordsworth 2020 AHRC funded project for English research at Leicester.
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Waging war on cultural terrorism
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/cultural-terrorism
Professor David Mattingly explores the importance of protecting archaeological heritage sites from cultural terrorism, and the efforts being undertaken to preserve and record in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room
https://le.ac.uk/library/news/changes-to-the-doctoral-college-reading-room
The Library would like the views of PGR students on recent changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room.
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Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality
Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling. Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.
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University of Leicester helps bring justice after 30 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-university-of-leicester-helps-bring-justice-after-30-years
Double helix of DNA 2050|Reviving the original technology of DNA fingerprinting helps bring justice after 30 years to convict rapist DNA fingerprinting tests performed at the University of Leicester has this week helped to convict Benjamin Whitehead for a rape he committed...
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Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence
Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.