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Luke Baker
https://le.ac.uk/people/luke-baker
The academic profile of Dr Luke Baker, Lecturer - Muscle Biology at University of Leicester
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Jennifer Cole Wright
https://le.ac.uk/people/jennifer-cole-wright
The academic profile of Dr Jennifer Cole Wright, Associate Professor of Marketing / Deputy Dean of Education, School of Business University of Leicester
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Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/student-study-investigates-how-lasers-can-control-lightning
Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.
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Join the fight to save lives
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures/areas/join-the-fight
Empower Community Ambassadors to Prevent Snakebite Deaths in Ganjam, Odisha Led By Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett, Institute for Environmental Futures Vital research into the causes and circumstances of avoidable snakebite deaths is being led by Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett...
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Big Antiquity
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/big-antiquity
Learn more about Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester's Big Antiquity research theme, with key research projects including Ancient Akrotiri Project, The Birth of Greek Culture, In the Footsteps of Caesar, Roman Knossos, and The Trans-Sahara Project
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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/dna/dna-schools-and-colleges/resources
Here at The University of Leicester, we offer academic resources for schools and colleges on the topic of genetics.
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TV legend Johnny Ball gets University of Leicester staff, students and local schoolchildren thinking of numbers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/tv-legend-johnny-ball-thinking-numbers
The science and mathematics communicator visited University of Leicester to launch the NSPCC’s Number Day 2026 and joined Dr Josh Smalley, chemist and Great British Bake Off finalist, for demonstrations with schoolchildren
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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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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.