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• Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning celebrates successful part-time students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/vaughan-centre-for-lifelong-learning-celebrates-successful-part-time-students

  Part-time students at the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning were congratulated on their commitment and dedication at an award ceremony on 5 March at The Fraser Noble Building, University of Leicester.

• Historians pay tribute following death of Holocaust survivor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/historians-pay-tribute-following-death-of-holocaust-survivor

  The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has joined in the world-wide expressions of regret on the death of Elie Wiesel.

• What is saffron

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/what-is-saffron

  Did you know that you need to collect about 200,000 flowers to produce just one kilo of saffron? The labour needed to produce it is just one of the many reasons that make the spice the world's most expensive agricultural product.

• Research to explore socioeconomic rights and global justice movements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-to-explore-socioeconomic-rights-and-global-justice-movements

  Joe Wills (pictured) from our School of Law is to publish a new book investigating socioeconomic rights and global justice movements on Thursday 30 March.

• Join Jane Austen and zombie experts for pre-Halloween screening and panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-pp-and-zombies

  Experts on 19th century literature and the undead will come together for a pre-Halloween event at the University of Leicester on 29 October when the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies presents a free screening of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, followed by a discussion...

• Management Education as a Defence against the Dark (Commercial) Arts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/12/10/management-education-as-a-defence-against-the-dark-commercial-arts/

  Posted by Nigel Iyer in School of Business Blog on December 10, 2013 Nigel Krishna Iyer, Independent Fraud and Corruption Investigator and Teaching Fellow at the School, discusses the rationale underpinning the new CPD course  Defence against Fraud and Corruption .

• New scheme to broaden Leicester students’ international ambitions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/turing-scheme

  Leicester students will have the chance to broaden their horizons and enhance their studies with global opportunities through a new £110million UK Government scheme.

• River research reveals scale of macroplastic pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/river-plastic

  Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows.

• New advance announced in fight against Alzheimers and Parkinsons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-advance-announced-in-fight-against-alzheimers-and-parkinsons

  A five-year study by an international team led by Leicester has found a way of ‘reversing’ symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as  Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – using fruit flies as test subjects.

• The Historical Genetics of the Cotentin Peninsula

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/related-projects/the-historical-genetics-of-the-cotentin-peninsula

  Academic partners This project is being carried out by Dr Richard Jones and Dr Turi King, in partnership with Professor Pierre Bauduin.