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Student research examines how we can generate useful energy from earthquakes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/student-examines-how-we-can-generate-useful-energy-from-earthquakes
Research assistant Elliot Spender from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been featured by PhysicsWorld discussing how we could potentially harness the power of earthquakes in order to generate useful energy.
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Study shows slow walking pace is good predictor of heart-related deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-shows-slow-walking-pace-good-predictor-of-heart-related-deaths
A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has concluded that middle-aged people who report that they are slow walkers could be at higher risk...
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Cancer scientists take part in Tough Mudder
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/cancer-scientists-take-part-in-tough-mudder
A team of scientists is all set to get down and dirty this weekend – all in the aid of charity. Scientists based at the Cancer Research UK Leicester Centre, who are working on early detection of different cancers, will take part in their first Tough Mudder on 14 May.
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New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower
A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.
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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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Local students begin to take their LEAP into University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university
On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).
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Leicester geologist contributes to major project examining the technosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-geologist-contributes-to-major-project-examining-the-2018technosphere2019
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from our Department of Geology is working with artist Anne-Sophie Milon on a new project examining the ‘technosphere’ and what impact it will leave behind on the planet’s fossil record.
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PhD Students
https://le.ac.uk/history/study/research-degrees/current-phd-students
Contact members of History at Leicester's academic staff. Browse staff profiles and find out how to contact our team via telephone or email.
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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Opportunity to touch smell and taste a deconstructed medieval manuscript
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/opportunity-to-touch-smell-and-taste-a-2018deconstructed2019-medieval-manuscript
A unique opportunity to experience a medieval manuscript as a sensory experience will be taking place at the University.