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Ruth David (1929-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/ruth-david
Ruth’s last visit to the University of Leicester, 26 November 2019.|The David Wilson Library holds copies of Ruth's memoirs, A Child of Her Time, and of Lifelines, a volume of letters she and her parents exchanged before they were deported to Auschwitz.
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University physicists make Quite Interesting guest appearances
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-physicists-make-quite-interesting-guest-appearances
Physicists from our University recently brought the aurora borealis to the studio of the popular BBC panel show QI.
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Arch-I-Scan blog Museum of London photography – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2020/03/17/photographing-in-the-dark/
Arch-I-Scan project's first session of pottery photography in the Museum of London
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Students create a buzz by providing new homes for bees
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/students-create-a-buzz-by-providing-new-homes-for-bees
Our University has welcomed two new beehives at the Brookfield campus as part of a new sustainability awareness initiative.
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Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown
The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.
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Citizens of Change celebrate life-changing achievements online
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/graduation-celebration
IQiUjIbODDE|When starting their degrees at the University of Leicester, no student could have predicted that their 2020 graduation ceremony would have to be postponed because of a pandemic.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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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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University of Leicester and National Nuclear Laboratory sign an agreement with Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute on future space battery design
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/05-agreement-signed-on-space-battery-design
Space battery signing Professor Iain Gillespie signing a memorandum of understanding|The memorandum of understanding (MoU) pledges new areas of cooperation on research on radioisotope thermoelectric power generators for use in space exploration.