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Literary Leicester proves popular once again
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/literary-leicester-proves-popular-once-again
Over 3000 people attended an event at the University’s Literary Leicester Festival this year, with great feedback from audiences that travelled to the campus and around the city to take part in our annual celebration of the written word.
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Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh
Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.
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Expert discusses Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and threat of cyber-attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/expert-discusses-salisbury-nerve-agent-poisoning-and-threat-of-cyber-attacks
Dr Rob Dover from our School of History, Politics and International Relations was recently interviewed by US show Knowledge@Wharton about the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and the threat of potential cyber-attacks.
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Space Park Leicester marks hugely successful first year as Space City launches
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/space-park-anniversary
University of Leicester reflects on past and hints at future as glimpse of next phase of Space Park Leicester’s development unveiled, coinciding with the launch of Leicester’s ‘Space City’ cluster
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Feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives explored in new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/tooth-wear-sheds-light-on-the-feeding-habits-of-ancient-elephant-relatives
How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures of their teeth.
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Leicester graduate excels in International Hackathon promoting women in computer science
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/university-of-leicester-graduate-excels-in-international-hackathon-promoting-women-in-computer-science
When it comes to paving out a career post-university, Software and Electronics Engineering graduate Oishi Deb is showing everyone how it’s done. Rather than kicking back and relaxing over the summer, Oishi jetted off to Barcelona to take part in WomENcourage 2017.
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Martin Coffey: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/author/martin_coffey/page/4/
Postgraduate Career Development Adviser, Doctoral College Team.
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Quarter-of-a-century plant blooming takes centre stage in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/agave
A rare plant that flowers once every 25 to 30 years has finally bloomed in the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden.
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Student shares life-changing conversation with Prince Harry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/student-shares-life-changing-conversation-with-prince-harry
In a recent interview with the CBC, English student Mercy has explained how Prince Harry played a role in her journey to self-acceptance as a young person living with the HIV virus.
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Physics students calculate how to build Star Trek photon torpedoes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/physics-students-calculate-how-to-build-star-trek-photon-torpedoes
Physics students have boldly gone where no student has gone before – by calculating one way to potentially build photon torpedoes seen in the Star Trek universe.