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• Recent grants

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/research/grants

  Researchers in the Medieval Research Centre are frequently awarded prestigious and significant grants to undertake their research in medieval studies. Find out more about some of our Centre's recent research grants.

• Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image out now

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/monkey-to-man

  One of the most iconic depictions of evolution, the “march of progress”, will be explored for the first time in a new book by a University of Leicester academic.

• Photograph exhibition organised by students highlights liberation of Nazi camps

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/photograph-exhibition-highlights-liberation-of-nazi-camps

  A photograph exhibition highlighting the liberation of Nazi camps during the Second World War will launch at the David Wilson Library on Wednesday 22 March.

• The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature

  https://le.ac.uk/arts/research/poetics-of-plants

  An overview of Professor Lesley Wylie's Leverhulme-funded project exploring the poetics of plants in Latin American Literature

• Nationwide strikes start across UK universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/20-strike-info

  National strike action across higher education institutions starts again today, after members of the University and College Union (UCU) voted in favour of action relating to changes to the USS pension scheme, pay and conditions.

• Asteroid fragments narrow down timeframe for giant planets’ current orbits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/giant-planet-instability

  University of Leicester-led study suggests that the orbital instability of the giant planets happened between 60-100 million years after the beginning of the Solar System, with evidence found in meteorites linked to asteroid believed to be remains of a destroyed planetesimal

• Nephrology

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/nephrology

  Nephrology research in Leicester is carried out by a team of clinical and non-clinical academics from both University and NHS backgrounds. Topics of interest encompass laboratory, clinical and epidemiological studies in kidney disease.

• School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 15

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/page/15/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Student puts his own stamp on Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/student-puts-his-own-stamp-on-leicester

  David Hall, graduating with a History BA this week, has put his own ‘stamp’ on his academic work at the University of Leicester - quite literally! David began collecting stamps when he was a child, inspired by his grandad’s collection.

• Student overcomes challenges of independence to achieve his PhD dream

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/siyuan-lu

  A University of Leicester student with severe cerebral palsy is set to complete his PhD two years early, despite several setbacks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.