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Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles
Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.
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From Berlin to Leicester: A Looted Book’s Tale
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/11/05/from-berlin-to-leicester-a-looted-books-tale/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on November 5, 2024 Please note that this post contains content relating to suicide and the Holocaust.
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BBC Radio Leicester: Alberto Fernández Carbajal and Samar Habib interview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/11/26/bbc-radio-leicester-alberto-fernandez-carbajal-and-samar-habib-interview/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on November 26, 2015 On the morning of 25 November 2015, I headed out to the BBC Radio Leicester studio for an interview with Ed Stagg , who hosted me and Dr Samar Habib across the airwaves.
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Tales of migration lead to unique international project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/migrants-tales-lead-to-unique-international-project
A tale of two cities has brought together two international universities in a unique collaboration to explore their common histories. The cities are Baroda in Gujarat, India, and Leicester in England – two cities united by a story of migration.
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Genetics PhD students photograph wins University competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/genetics-phd-students-photograph-wins-university-competition
Shane Hussey, a PhD student in the Department of Genetics, has won the Graduate School’s second PhDepictions photography competition. The runner-up prize went to Joe Emmings of the Department of Geology.
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Saffia's story: from distance learning to campus study
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/distance-learning/undergraduate/saffia
Hear from our student Saffia, who started her undergraduate degree by distance learning and then transferred to campus for her second year of study.
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Study in Nature provides potential for cancer treatment targets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/study-in-nature-provides-potential-for-cancer-treatment-targets
Researchers for our Department of Chemistry have been involved in new research, published in Nature, that provides potential for new targets for developing cancer treatments.
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PhD students
https://le.ac.uk/english/people/phd-students
Take a look at some of the PhD research currently being undertaken by postgraduate students in English at the University of Leicester.
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Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018 This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.
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Researcher awarded grant to explore the international impact of attempts to change how antibiotics are prescribed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/researcher-awarded-grant-to-explore-the-international-impact-of-attempts-to-change-how-antibiotics-are-prescribed
A researcher from our University has been awarded a prestigious Research Councils grant to study antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a new perspective.