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Nobel Prize winner on campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/nobel-prizewinner-on-campus
One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was visiting the University of Leicester campus - on the day of the announcement of the winners was made.
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Leicester professor judges space travel competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition
Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.
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A change in Leicesters DNA Research Professional features new research institutes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/a-change-in-leicester2019s-dna-research-professional-features-new-research-institutes
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise Professor Iain Gillespie (pictured) have spoken to Research Professional about the University’s pioneering new research institutes.
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Jewry Wall Museum improvements to be made
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/jewry-wall-museum-improvements-to-be-made
The archaeologist who led the project to discover King Richard III’s remains will be leading investigations in a project to improve Leicester’s finest Roman site.
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Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/project-to-investigate-genetic-roots-of-resistance-to-anti-cancer-therapy-agents
The mechanisms that cause cancers to respond poorly to therapy are to be investigated in a project that commemorates and honours the work of an eminent Leicester geneticist.
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Charnwood Forest villagers to uncover hidden history in their own gardens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/charnwood-community-archaeology-dig
Discover how Charnwood Forest villagers are uncovering hidden history through community archaeology digs in gardens and public spaces this May.
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Prison noise examined in new book from Leicester alumnus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/prison-study
A researcher has used her time spent behind bars while at the University of Leicester as the basis for a book on the effect of sound in prisons.
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University contributes rare manuscript to major Sikh exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-contributes-rare-manuscript-to-major-sikh-exhibition
Our University is contributing a rare Sikh manuscript to a major exhibition showcasing unseen relics and artefacts from the 19th Century Anglo Sikh Wars.
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Continuing inequalities contribute to the wide variation in rates of stillbirths and neonatal deaths across the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/perinatal
The MBRRACE-UK Collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) and the University of Leicester’s The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) research group, has published a ‘State of the Nation’ report on perinatal...
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Expert opinions cover the Reformation Emily Bronts Heathcliff and Trumps media tactics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/expert-opinions-cover-the-reformation-emily-brontio2019s-heathcliff-and-trumps-media-tactics
Dr Angus Cameron from our School of Business has written an article for The Conversation discussing Jakob Fugger, the man who underwrote the ambition of power-hungry medieval Princes.