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• Leicester conservation project to save threatened wildflowers from extinction

  Date: 18 November 2016

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  A new project at our University hopes to save rare and threatened local wildflowers from across Leicestershire and Rutland from extinction.

• Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to host plant and pollination themed art exhibitions

  Date: 13 July 2016

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  Our Attenborough Arts Centre will host two new contemporary art exhibitions in its brand new gallery spaces this summer, from 23 July – Sunday 25...

• Winner of Leicester competition to receive photograph from space

  Date: 25 January 2016

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  Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s...

• Vice-Chancellor speaks out on gender inequality in universities at international conference

  Date: 20 May 2016

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  Our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has addressed the issue of gender inequality in universities at an international conference...

• Battlefield feeling changing perceptions of masculinity in war

  Date: 3 February 2015

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  A new project led by Dr Holly Furneaux from the School of English will shake up traditional views of masculinity on the battlefield by exploring...

• The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event

  Date: 8 October 2015

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  Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed...

• Academic dances the night away in new film starring Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman

  Date: 16 April 2015

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  Dr Heidi Ashton from the School of Management is starring in a new blockbuster film, A Little Chaos, released in UK cinemas on Friday 17 April.

• Earth history opens a new chapter

  Date: 11 May 2015

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  An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be...

• Expert comment UK Government must end uncertainty for Gibraltars people after Brexit

  Date: 3 March 2017

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ academic, Dr Chris Grocott, has called on the Government to provide certainty on their plans for Gibraltar following Brexit.

• Crocus Sundays at the Botanic Garden

  Date: 8 February 2019

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Botanic Garden to host the perennially popular Crocus Sundays event this year on 24 February and 3 March.