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• Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain

  A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle ‘the memory web’ by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding...

• Benefits of archaeology to communities unearthed at events on campus and Bradgate Park

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/benefits-of-archaeology-to-communities-unearthed-at-events-on-campus-and-bradgate-park

  The importance of archaeology and how it can benefit society and communities will be explored at a number of events hosted by the University.

• Funding

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/funding

  Find out about funding opportunities for postgraduate and research degrees, including details of studentships and bursaries and the Medieval Research Centre's small research grants.

• New labelling system for medical research press releases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/new-labelling-system-for-medical-research-press-releases

  Following a suggestion from President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle to the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS), Higher Education institutions are now to implement the use of a new labelling system for press releases when announcing new medical research findings.

• Renowned Indian actor and film producer to speak at our University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/renowned-indian-actor-and-film-producer-to-speak-at-our-university

  Renowned Indian actor, film producer and Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Mohan Agashe will be delivering a talk on how films can be a source of nutritional entertainment at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 18 July.

• Leicester student is one of only eight in the world to win astronomy competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-student-is-one-of-only-eight-in-the-world-to-win-astronomy-competition

  A student from Space Research Centre is one of only eight people in the world – and the only one in the UK – to win a place to visit one the world’s most advanced telescopes, travel to the most arid desert in the world – and sleep where James Bond did! Second...

• New exercise programme to reduce heart disease risk in kidney transplant patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-exercise-programme-to-reduce-heart-disease-risk-in-kidney-transplant-patients

  A new exercise programme is being developed by researchers at our University, working with Loughborough University and Leicester’s Hospitals, to reduce the risk of heart disease in people who have had a kidney transplant.

• Migrant money able to reduce poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/migrant-money-able-to-reduce-poverty-and-inequality-in-sub-saharan-africa

  A new study, published in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, has shown that poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa can be reduced by international remittances.

• University celebrates 50th anniversary of UKs first mass communication research centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-uks-first-mass-communication-research-centre

  2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.

• English Language Teaching Unit establishes link with Kettering Hospital

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/english-language-teaching-unit-establishes-link-with-kettering-hospital

  On April 15th, the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) started a 12-week programme delivering English for Nurses classes to international nurses working at Kettering General Hospital.