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‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/volcano
Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of University of Leicester geologists to predict whether a volcano’s magma is likely to be rich in copper.
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Leicester link to Nobel Prize winners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-link-to-nobel-prize-winners
In the latest announcement from the Nobel Prize committee, US academics Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University, Boston and Mike Young at Rockefeller University, New York, have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of...
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Esteemed Leicester University professor hands over reins of celebrated Space Research Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/space-research-centre-head
A professor who has been the driving force in advancing space research and exploration at the University of Leicester for more than four decades has handed over the reins of the newly named Space Projects and Instrumentation Group.
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Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award honour for Dr Suzie Imber
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/suzie-imber-rosalind-franklin
Dr Suzanne (Suzie) Imber, Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester has been named as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2021.
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Diverse range of events taking place at the University of Leicester to celebrate Black History Month 2018
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-black-history-month
Mental health discussions, student-led initiatives and Leicester’s hidden Black history among events marking Black History Month in the UK
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Leicester secures funding in regional policing partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-secures-funding-in-regional-policing-partnership
The University, as part of a consortium of seven universities, five police forces and five Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) across the East Midlands, has been awarded £862,620 from the College of Policing, the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Practical Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1009
Module code: AR1009 This module will expand upon (and deepen your understanding of) the topics and issues covered in Archaeology: the essentials as well as provide greater practical experience of the archaeological techniques used in excavation, survey and post-excavation...
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Practical Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar1009
Module code: AR1009 This module will expand upon (and deepen your understanding of) the topics and issues covered in Archaeology: the essentials as well as provide greater practical experience of the archaeological techniques used in excavation, survey and post-excavation...
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Babylonian Sources
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah3084
Module code: AH3084 The ancient Babylonians had a rich culture that is exceptionally well documented thanks to their practice of writing on clay tablets.
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Greek History in 40 Lives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah2044
Module code: AH2044 Why are some people remembered and others forgotten by history? How much do we really know about the ‘famous names’ of ancient Greece? How can we reconstruct the lives of ‘ordinary’ Greeks? Which modern scholars have influenced whose lives...