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Leicester academic urges caution for international sports
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/sport-covid
A Leicester academic has urged further caution for international sports events taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Primary school pupils graduate before University of Leicester students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/intouniversity-graduation
Primary school children stole a march on University of Leicester students after graduating from the institution at the age of just 10 and 11.
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Webb Fellowship awarded for the study of giant planets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/webb-fellow
An early-career planetary scientist has been awarded the third-ever Webb Fellowship and will study the atmospheres of giant planets using the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Leicester expands international offer for student placements
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/turing-scheme
Leicester students will be offered even more global opportunities to enhance their studies in the next academic year, funded by a major UK Government project.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii
The University of Leicester joins the nation in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Final poppy wreaths laid at Rutland war memorials for Poppy Pilgrimage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rutland-poppy
Poppy wreaths laid by the University at three war memorials in Rutland.
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Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/nuclear-technologies
High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly different from the established order of the Cold War, according to new research undertaken at the University of Leicester.
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Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils
One of the finest examples of such fossils includes a Cretaceous-era octopus of the extinct genus Keuppia unearthed in Lebanon, estimated to be at least 94 million years old. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeobiology and co-author of the paper.
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Leicester Legal Eagles in flight
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/legalliteracy/2014/03/04/leicester-legal-eagles-in-flight/
Posted by Dawn Watkins in Legal Literacy on March 4, 2014 This week sees the fourth of five visits made by groups of the University’s law students to St.
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‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/18/women-who-become-mothers-before-33-earn-15-less/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2016 …than other UK women who do not become mothers according to a report released by the TUC. Statistics are based on IPPR research.