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Food available across University in the name of equality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/food-available-across-university-in-the-name-of-equality
The University's Residential and Commercial Services (RACS) is supporting International Women’s Day (IWD), which took place on 8 March, and is raising awareness of the campaign by offering a number of dishes which contain women’s names.
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Jacqueline Wilson describes her prolific writing career as part of Literary Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/jacqueline-wilson-describes-her-prolific-writing-career-as-part-of-literary-leicester
All public tickets have been allocated for this event Former Children's Laureate and Tracy Beaker creator Jacqueline Wilson will visit Leicester's De Montfort Hall this month as part of our University's annual celebration of the written word.
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Heart professor stars in BBC documentary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/heart-professor-stars-in-bbc-documentary
A leading Leicester professor is to appear in a BBC documentary after finding a link between red meat and heart disease. Professor Toru Suzuki (pictured) from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences was asked to conduct an experiment looking at how steak affects the body.
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Leicester students produce pedal powered cinema
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-students-produce-pedal-powered-cinema
A team of engineering students (pictured) has produced a bicycle powered generator which could power a 55 watt projector for the time required to watch a movie.
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Support for combined authority
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/support-for-combined-authority
The vice-chancellors of Leicestershire’s three universities have written to the Government, pledging support for a combined authority.
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University to host encore of Sir David Attenboroughs public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/university-to-host-2018encore2019-of-sir-david-attenborough2019s-public-lecture
Sir David Attenborough’s lecture for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture series entitled ‘Beauty in Nature’, which was originally delivered in January 2016 at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, is to be screened for the public.
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Whats the difference between margin trading and gambling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/whats-the-difference-between-margin-trading-and-gambling
Margin trading allows an individual to borrow money from a broker in order to take much larger positions in financial assets and therefore multiply the size of their gains and losses.
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University 2015 gospel choir champions to defend title
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-gospel-choir-champions-to-defend-title
The University's gospel choir, Leicester University Voices (LUV) has been shortlisted to sing at this year’s national finals of a university choir competition.
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Over 200 academics sign up as University experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/over-200-academics-sign-up-as-university-experts
More than 200 Leicester academics have signed up as experts to the University's Experts Guide, helping to highlight research taking place at our University to the media and engage in topical academic debate.
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Autonomous vehicles at Science Museum Late
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/27-science-museum-late
Science Museum Lates are adults-only, after-hours theme nights that take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month. On Wednesday 28 August, the University of Leicester’s DriverLeics Team will be part of the Science Museum Late session, which runs from 6.