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Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate
A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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University of Leicester welcomes extra guidelines to ensure best international student experience
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/uk-agent
Ensuring international students enjoy the best experience possible when they arrive to study in the UK has led to the University of Leicester being one of the first to formally sign up to the new UK Agent Quality Framework.
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Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope
Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.
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SPRINT awarded additional £200,000 funding from UK Space Agency
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/sprint-uksa
A national business support programme for the space sector led by the University of Leicester has been given a Government funding boost.
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Our Space Heritage: Public event to celebrate Leicester’s long-standing space expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/our-space-heritage
Professor Pounds, who was also guest of honour at the opening of Leicester’s new Space Research Centre earlier this year, said: “Moving to a lectureship in Leicester from the UCL Rocket Group – with a doctoral thesis still incomplete – reflected the pace of change in the...
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Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna
To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.
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Annual lectures
https://le.ac.uk/gge/events/annual-lecture
Find out more about the School's annual lectures in Geography and Geology (Bennett Lecture), given by distinguished speakers in their fields of research.
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Food and water
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/the-cost-of-a-plate-of-food-2020-wfp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 The Cost of a Plate of Food 2020 (WFP) A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic joins existing food shortages and hunger according...
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Leicester Planetary Scientist Shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/09/23/leicester-planetary-scientist-shortlisted-for-the-women-of-the-future-awards/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 September 2021 Enormous congratulations to Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano, who is on the shortlist for the 2021 Women of the Future Awards! Beatriz is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow within our Planetary Science...
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Chinese aid to Africa: what are the facts?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/chinese-aid-to-africa-what-are-the-facts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 China has become the biggest donor of aid to Africa- read more about the background in this interesting article from the Conversation .