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Team to take on the Three Peaks Challenge in 24 hours
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/team-to-take-on-the-three-peaks-challenge-in-24-hours
A team of students is preparing to climb the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales to raise awareness of mental health issues.
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Our students take part in European Central Bank QA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/our-students-take-part-in-european-central-bank-q-a
Students on our School of Business Intermediate Macroeconomics 2 module led by Professor Panicos Demetriades, took part in a live Twitter Question and Answer session with The European Central Bank’s (ECB) Executive Board Member and Chief Economist Peter Praet on Thursday...
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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The spacecraft that came before Juno
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/12/the-spacecraft-that-came-before-juno/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 12, 2016 The Juno spacecraft is not the first to visit Jupiter – this honour goes to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft back in December of 1973.
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Teddy bears to teach children about paw health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/teddy-bears-to-teach-children-about-paw-health
Cuddly toys and their owners, young and old, are invited to receive a special health check at the University’s free family fun day marking the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service.
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.
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2 million boost for Leicester scientists to tackle hardtotreat cancers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/ps2-million-boost-for-leicester-scientists-to-tackle-hard-to-treat-cancers
Scientists in Leicester are set to benefit from almost £2 million to look into new ways to treat lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, two types of the disease that are among the most difficult to treat.
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Final chances to view popular city centre archaeological dig
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/final-chances-to-view-popular-city-centre-archaeological-dig
These tickets have now sold out Due to huge demand, Leicester archaeologists have announced further opportunities for members of the public to view the largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 May 2017.
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Acarajé diaries. Day 6 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/06/30/acaraje-diaries-day-6/
Project co-investigator Ana Martins describes here research on Acarajé, and ongoing fieldwork in Salvador.
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Pioneering Leicester researcher ready for ‘mind-blowing’ space images
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/naomi-rowe-gurney
Raised in Newbury, Berskhire – on Watership Down, made famous by the fantasy novel – Naomi is also a pioneer as the first Black woman to receive a PhD from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy.