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• Times Higher Education World University Rankings confirm Leicesters place among top 1 of universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/times-higher-education-world-university-rankings-confirms-leicesters-place-in-top-1-of-universities

  A definitive table of world University rankings has seen the University of Leicester maintain its rank among the top 1 per cent of universities in the world.

• Leicester academic recognised with esteemed prize for promising future

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-academic-recognised-with-esteemed-prize-for-promising-future

  An outstanding academic at our University has received a prestigious £100,000 Prize for Archaeology – the second award in two years from the Leverhulme Trust for research at Leicester in the subject area.

• Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain

  A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle ‘the memory web’ by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding...

• Benefits of archaeology to communities unearthed at events on campus and Bradgate Park

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/benefits-of-archaeology-to-communities-unearthed-at-events-on-campus-and-bradgate-park

  The importance of archaeology and how it can benefit society and communities will be explored at a number of events hosted by the University.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/cse/research

  The College is made up of a number of Schools and subject areas, with many new and exciting research groups and projects on the go.

• What route is right for me?

  https://le.ac.uk/career-development-service/start-route

  Researching and networking Speaking to people who can share their experiences and offer advice and insights into roles/areas is a helpful way to research the different industries, organisations and job roles you’re interested in.

• Leicester student is one of only eight in the world to win astronomy competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-student-is-one-of-only-eight-in-the-world-to-win-astronomy-competition

  A student from Space Research Centre is one of only eight people in the world – and the only one in the UK – to win a place to visit one the world’s most advanced telescopes, travel to the most arid desert in the world – and sleep where James Bond did! Second...

• New exercise programme to reduce heart disease risk in kidney transplant patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-exercise-programme-to-reduce-heart-disease-risk-in-kidney-transplant-patients

  A new exercise programme is being developed by researchers at our University, working with Loughborough University and Leicester’s Hospitals, to reduce the risk of heart disease in people who have had a kidney transplant.

• Migrant money able to reduce poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/migrant-money-able-to-reduce-poverty-and-inequality-in-sub-saharan-africa

  A new study, published in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, has shown that poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa can be reduced by international remittances.

• University celebrates 50th anniversary of UKs first mass communication research centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-uks-first-mass-communication-research-centre

  2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.