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Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton
Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans.
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Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues
Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.
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Prestigious global award for School of Education academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/glenn-fulcher
Glenn Fulcher, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment in the University of Leicester’s School of Education, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Messick Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to validation theory.
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Oral history projects in Nottinghamshire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/nottinghamshire
Browse projects and oral history materials from Nottinghamshire, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history project, which is now part of the Rainbow Heritage website.
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Literary Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/25/1926/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 25, 2019 The Secret Mystery of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Working in the archives, I often roll my eyes at newspaper headlines which report on archive material being ‘newly discovered’, suddenly...
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Suzie Imber Wins the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/08/24/suzie-imber-wins-the-royal-society-rosalind-franklin-award-and-lecture/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 August 2021 Enormous congratulations to Dr. Suzie Imber this prestigious award in the 2021/22 Royal Society prize list.
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Rebecca Moore
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/rlm19/
PhD student working on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project
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Black Mischief in the Albatross Modern Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/05/09/black-mischief-in-the-albatross-modern-library/
Posted by in Waugh and Words on May 9, 2019 Modernist scholar and editor of our forthcoming Black Mischief volume Dr Naomi Milthorpe has been researching with our project partners at the Harry Ransom Center.
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Archiving our Centenary
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/archives
Discover how our Archives and Special Collections team have been making exciting new discoveries about the people and events that made the University of Leicester.
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Managing Knowledge: Dictionaries and Ideology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7219
Module code: EN7219 This module traces the beginnings of the modern dictionary in the work of Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries, but concentrates on the great dictionary projects of the nineteenth century, particularly: the Oxford English Dictionary Roget’s...