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Professor Alice Roberts digs University of Leicester’s fascinating finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/honorand-alice-roberts
One of Britain’s best-known broadcasters, Professor Alice Roberts, has endorsed the University of Leicester’s exemplary track record for unearthing some of the nation’s most treasured historical finds.
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Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/women-will-take-118-years-to-achieve-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 A ccording to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors.
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Laser tag puppy room and inflatable assault course return to campus to help destress students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/laser-tag-puppies-and-inflatable-assault-return-to-help-de-stress-students
Our Students’ Union has organised another jam-packed programme of events designed to alleviate student stress during the exam period which runs from 3 – 31 May 2017.
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X-ray laboratory
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/about/laboratories/x-ray
This laboratory houses the DRagon Mobile/Semi-Portable Direct Digital Radiography System. A wide range of X-ray images can be taken for study.
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COP29: What it’s like behind the scenes at the world’s largest climate conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/tim-neff
An interview with Lecturer in Journalism Dr Tim Neff as he attends COP29.
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Xinyu (Rain) Xu
https://le.ac.uk/people/rain-xu
The academic profile of Dr Rain Xu, Lecturer at University of Leicester
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Celebrating Leicester’s live music heritage as Radio 2 comes to town
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/gigs
While some of pop’s biggest names will be descending on Leicester this weekend for Radio 2 In The Park, it’s not the first time some of them have graced a stage within the LE1 postcode.
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Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/
Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)
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Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948
https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging
External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.
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Leicester’s tuberculosis research boosted by six-figure funding for lab equipment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-tuberculosis-research-boosted-funding-lab-equipment
The University of Leicester’s research into tuberculosis has been bolstered with a six-figure grant to fund new lab equipment.