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Air pollution to become worlds leading cause of premature death by 2050
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/air-pollution-to-become-world2019s-leading-cause-of-premature-death-by-2050
Leading experts will be discussing prominent environmental issues - including how air pollution will become the world’s top environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades - at an event on Wednesday 25 November.
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Amateur photographers invited to snap a picture of health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/amateur-photographers-invited-to-snap-a-picture-of-health
Budding amateur photographers are being challenged to bring life-changing science into the community by snapping shots relating to the theme of 'Science: Hearts, Lungs and Fitness' in order to encourage people to get involved with local science research.
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Summer School to help raise aspirations of young people in care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/summer-school-to-help-raise-aspirations-of-young-people-in-care
The University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Loughborough University will be hosting their tenth annual Summer School event, which aims to improve the life chances of young people in public care.
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Scanning technology helps bring answers to Shoreham tragedy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/scanning-technology-helps-bring-answers-to-shoreham-tragedy
Cutting-edge scanning technology was used to help identify victims of the crash at the Shoreham Air Show.
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University to hold 2015 Summer School on Materials Processing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-to-hold-2015-summer-school-on-materials-processing
The University is to host its first summer school on Materials Processing at the Department of Engineering from Monday 22 June to Friday 26 June. The summer school has been organised by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Innovative Metal Processing (IMPaCT).
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The Science of Tolkiens Middleearth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/the-science-of-tolkiens-middle-earth
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Historian helps to develop 54 million National Civil War Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/historian-helps-to-develop-ps5-4-million-national-civil-war-centre
Dr Andrew Hopper (pictured) from the Centre for English Local History has helped to develop a £5.4 million National Civil War Centre in the East Midlands.
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Space technology explores large-scale changes to the climate of Africa
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/space-technology-explores-large-scale-changes-to-the-climate-of-africa
An international research team led by Professor Heiko Balzter, Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research from the Department of Geography has mapped the entire African continent south of the Sahara for geographical changes and has discovered that many areas...
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University to host international meeting in radiology and imaging
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/university-to-host-international-meeting-in-radiology-and-imaging
The University will host a major joint meeting of the world’s leading forensic/autopsy radiology and imaging groups – the International Society for Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI) and the International Association of Forensic Radiographers (IAFR) – from 14 to 16...
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Pregnancy expertise from across the world to collaborate on health opportunities in China
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/pregnancy-expertise-from-across-the-world-to-collaborate-on-health-opportunities-in-china
A new project that will twin the expertise of pregnancy and obstetrics researchers across the world with their counterparts in China has been announced with funding from the Chinese government.