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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Student and alumnus to take on 3100 mile trek across the USA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/student-and-alumnus-to-take-on-3-100-mile-trek-across-the-usa
Two amateur hikers from our University are daring to take on a gruelling walk across the diverse landscape of the United States, documenting the extraordinary environments that they travel through.
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Protests against Trump in Britain may well signal the beginning of a new wave of AntiBrexit mobilisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/201cprotests-against-trump-in-britain-may-well-signal-the-beginning-of-a-new-wave-of-anti-brexit-mobilisation201d
Dr Fabian Frenzel (pictured), from the University of Leicester’s School of Business, has suggested that the recent protests against President Trump’s travel ban, seen across the UK, could signal a new wave of Anti-Brexit mobilisation.
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University of Leicester hosts event to encourage businesses to take on ex-Forces staff
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/university-leicester-event-businesses-ex-forces-staff
East Midlands business leaders discovered how Forces veterans and reservists can benefit their organisations at an event held by the University of Leicester.
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 28 May 3 June
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-28-may-3-june
John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written a piece for The Conversation on Sepp Blatter, who before recently resigning from his post was re-elected as FIFA President.
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New course to teach how modern museums can improve health and human rights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-course-to-teach-how-modern-museums-can-improve-health-and-human-rights
The world’s first ‘Massive Open Online Course’ (MOOC) in Museum Studies is to be launched by the University, providing people with the opportunity to learn about how the modern 21st century museum can contribute to agendas such as social justice, human rights and health and...
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American Studies student to take the long way home for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/american-studies-student-to-take-the-long-way-home-for-charity
A student will join one of his oldest friends on a daunting 60-mile-a-day cycling trip from Austria to England in a mere 24 days.
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HM The Queen thanks University of Leicester in message for Richard III reinterment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/hm-the-queen-thanks-university-of-leicester-in-message-for-richard-iii-reinterment
Her Majesty The Queen has thanked the University of Leicester in a message written for the reinterment ceremony of King Richard III on Thursday 26 March. The message reads: “The reinterment of Richard III is an event of great national and international significance.
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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 15
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/15/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester