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Art xrays locusts and more in three minutes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/art-x-rays-locusts-and-more-2013-in-three-minutes
The latest knowledge and insights from research at Leicester will be presented by twenty of the University’s most promising researchers this week.
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Alex Young
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/alex-young
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Dr Alex Young, who taught Engineering at Leicester in the 1960s and 1970s. Dr Young, who was an expert in the use of concrete in civil engineering, passed away in Cambridge on 23 October 2024.
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Oral history projects in Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/rutland
Browse projects and oral history materials from Rutland, including the Heritage of Rutland Water, a project about England's largest man-made lake in its smallest county.
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Registrar and Secretary
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/registrar
Find out more about our Registrar and Secretary - head of the University’s academic administration.
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Project to provide vital maths support for teenagers born very prematurely
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/making-sense-of-maths-vital-support-for-teenagers-born-very-prematurely
An award-winning research team led by Dr Samantha Johnson (pictured) from the Department of Health Sciences is developing a web-based e-learning programme to help teenagers who were born very prematurely with vital maths skills.
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Why do we still love James Bond
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/why-do-we-still-love-james-bond
On Monday 26 October, another new James Bond movie will hit our cinema screens and the publicity machinery seems to be in overdrive. Spectre is the twenty-fourth in the continuous film series based on Ian Fleming’s British superspy and is produced by Eon Productions for MGM/Sony.
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Staff and students to climb Everest in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/staff-and-students-to-climb-everest-in-leicester
The Attenborough Tower, the tallest building on the University of Leicester’s campus, stands at 52 metres high. Mount Everest is 171 times higher, at 8848 metres. On Wednesday 6 May, between 9.30am and 3.
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Expert comment Has the Olympic Games caught up with the modern world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-comment-has-the-olympic-games-caught-up-with-the-modern-world
Despite greater representation of women in the Rio Olympics than in previous years, anachronisms and gender divisions still remain, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.
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Embrace Arts will soon be Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/embrace-arts-will-soon-be-attenborough-arts-centre
The University of Leicester’s new gallery is moving towards its target completion date in Autumn 2015.
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Expert opinions cover childbirth and the media Junos goals and Theresa May
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-childbirth-and-the-media-junos-goals-and-theresa-may
Dr Ranjana Das from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing why we need to look at childbirth and the media, and the 'Birth Stories' project she is involved in.