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Where to dig
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/where-to-dig
We identified three potential areas of excavation – the Leicester City Council Social Services car park, the former Alderman Newton’s School playground and a private car park to the west of New Street.
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Alumni stars are recognised at glittering awards night in London
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/alumni-stars-awards-night-london
The University of Leicester recognised its inspiring alumni for their achievements at a special awards evening held in London.
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University Provost discusses proposals for universities to run schools
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university-provost-discusses-proposals-for-universities-to-run-schools
The University’s Provost Professor Mark Peel has written a piece for the Times Educational Supplement discussing the Government’s consultation paper ‘Schools that work for everyone’ – asking whether universities should also be required to run a school.
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Peace project
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/peace-project
University of Leicester is giving local schools and the local community the opportunity to visit its historic campus and discover the history of the University.
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When you’re working, you’re working.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/08/01/when-youre-working-youre-working/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 1, 2018 This morning I read a very interesting article titled “Time to call time on out of hours email?” Whilst this article could be easily categorised as just another treatise on work-life balance and the...
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Leicester study to improve crop plants
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants
Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.
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Leicester receives record Turing Scheme funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/turing
Having secured its largest-ever single grant for overseas mobility in 2023, Leicester has once more successfully bid for Turing funding to support outbound student mobility.
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Space Park Leicester facilities to be showcased at Farnborough Air Show
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/spl-farnborough
Experts from Space Park Leicester will be on hand to promote the opportunities available at the £100 million East Midlands facility to visitors from the global aerospace and defence communities at the prestigious Farnborough International Air Show
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Millions of records from UK collections to be unlocked by new Museum Data Service
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/museums-data-service
Three-way partnership between Art UK, Collections Trust and the University of Leicester will build real world digital infrastructure to transform the way museums share their object records and knowledge.
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Launch and trajectory
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/about/launch-trajectory
BepiColombo was successfully launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on 20 October 2018. The mission will take seven Earth years to reach Mercury.