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Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics
The study was led by Dr Isabel Sauermilch, researcher at the University of Tasmania and Utrecht University, and shows that these events were much more closely linked than previously thought.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Using the different types of blog in Blackboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/09/29/using-the-different-types-of-blog-in-blackboard/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 29, 2016 Blogging is a good way to get students to engage with a topic and to collaborate with each other.
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Popular Photography and Camera Culture in Ireland 1922-2000
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/popular-photography-and-camera-culture-in-ireland
The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Popular Photography and Camera Culture in Ireland 1922-2000 project.
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Historic University of Leicester landmark wins city heritage award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/cottages
A project which has breathed new life into an historic University of Leicester landmark has won a heritage award.
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Peace project
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/peace-project
University of Leicester is giving local schools and the local community the opportunity to visit its historic campus and discover the history of the University.
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Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3184
Module code: EN3184 Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, major (and popular) twentieth-century novelists, were both Catholic converts. She came from a half-Jewish working-class Edinburgh home, he from the Hampstead literati.
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Screening of Type 2 diabetes needs reviewing research suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/screening-of-type-2-diabetes-needs-reviewing-researchers-suggest
The process for screening for Type 2 diabetes or those at high risk of the condition needs “careful re-evaluation”, according to the first study on the effectiveness of testing methods which has been led by the Diabetes Research Centre.
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Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/planetary-disc-inferno
New simulations led by University of Leicester offer new explanation for star’s 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of such planets that have since ‘evaporated’
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MedTech worth £1.6 billion to Midlands economy according to new report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/13-medtech
A new report has been launched, which highlights the critical importance of the Medical Technologies (MedTech) sector to the Midlands economy.