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Sixth Doctoral Award success for student researching assessment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/sixth-doctoral-award-success-for-student-researching-assessment
Katerina Young has been awarded a highly prestigious TOEFL Doctoral Grant to support her research in writing assessment, supervised by Professor Glenn Fulcher in the School of Education.
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Curiosity disproves old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/curiosity-disproves-2018old-idea-of-mars-as-a-simple-basaltic-planet2019
As NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) celebrates four years on the Red Planet Leicester planetary scientist Professor John Bridges recounts the Curiosity mission’s success and explains what is next for the one-ton nuclear-powered science robot.
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Students offered HeadStart on University life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/headstart
Students heading to Leicester in 2021 are being invited to get a HeadStart on their University experience with online resources designed to help them settle into student life.
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Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge
As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.
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New resource strips everyday Roman handwriting bare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/latinnow-manual
A new open-access resource to help researchers study Roman handwriting has been released. Volume 1 of the Manual of Roman Everyday Writing is now available, produced by the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project.
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Clearing 2022: Change of heart sees outstanding Olivia find “second home”
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-olivia
Olivia graduated in 2022 and has a place to start her Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the University of Law this September, while already gaining experience with high-street law firm Slater & Gordon.
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Buckland Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/buckland
To honour the founding spirit of our university, we are awarding 100 Centenary Scholarships of £1,000 to undergraduate students beginning their studies in September 2018.
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Forthcoming projects
https://le.ac.uk/library/get-involved/library-champions/forthcoming-projects
Volunteering opportunities with the library. Find out what we're planning this year.
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Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/black-history-timelines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and...
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Russell Lee coal mining exhibits
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/russell-lee-coal-mining-exhibits/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA.