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• New species of rare ancient worm discovered in fossil hotspot

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/new-species-of-rare-ancient-worm-discovered-in-fossil-hotspot

  A team of researchers including Leicester’s Professor David Siveter have discovered a new species of lobopodian, an ancient relative of modern-day velvet worms, in 430 million-years-old Silurian rocks in Herefordshire, UK.

• Leicester’s Roman and Medieval past explored at Festival of Archaeology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/john-lewis

  University of Leicester teams are involved in events and displays across the region for the national Festival of Archaeology.

• History (Local History) MA

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/english-local-history-and-family-history-ma/2026

  This is for you if... you are fascinated by regional identities, society and landscape, and historical ecology and you wish to learn historical research techniques.

• Beasts and Boundaries: Sociology, Science, and Nature

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy3089

  Module code: SY3089 This module begins with the question: what does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century? This question has become a troubling one for a number of reasons.

• The Mediterranean in the Medieval World

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar2553

  Module code: AR2553 In the year 400, despite some decades of barbarian incursions into various parts of the Roman Empire and some disastrous defeats for its emperors, there was no great reason to believe that it was fatally threatened.

• Scholarships and prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/scholarships

  Find out about awards available to support you during a Geology degree at the University of Leicester. We run career-track bursary schemes and offer competitive prizes and awards in each year for academic achievement and overall performance.

• Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.

• University of Leicester receives share of £34m BHF investment to help safeguard UK’s world-class research status

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/05-british-heart-foundation-funding-research

  abstract image showing heart disease research|Funding will focus on strengthening research into precision medicine.

• Inspiring young engineer from our University wins prestigious engineering grants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/inspiring-young-engineer-from-our-university-wins-prestigious-engineering-grants

  A student from our University has been awarded two prestigious engineering grants for her ability in the field.

• Deborah Toner: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/author/deborah_toner/page/2/

  I'm a Lecturer in Modern History, with particular interests in the social and cultural history of alcohol in Mexico and the Americas.