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Iconic Space Park Leicester scoops top building awards
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The world’s first science and innovation park dedicated to space-related companies has won two prestigious building awards.
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Britain’s largest ‘Sea Dragon’ discovered in Rutland
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Ichthyosaurs first appeared around 250 million years ago and went extinct 90 million years ago. They were an extraordinary group of marine reptiles that varied in size from 1 to more than 25 metres in length, and resembled dolphins in general body shape.
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University Criminologist to lead plenary session at international justice conference
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Professor Neil Chakraborti (pictured) – Head of the Department of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies – has been invited to deliver a plenary paper as part of an international justice conference held to mark the Howard League for Penal Reform’s 150th birthday.
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Major European grant for research into rare diseases
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Our University has joined an international programme of research to improve the diagnosis of rare diseases.
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Inspirational student who twice battled sepsis receives First Class degree
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One of our recent graduates Kishan Vithlani has twice overcome a potentially life-threatening sepsis infection and gone on to achieve a First Class Computer Science BSc. Kishan was born with a congenital heart condition, and had to have surgery twice as a child.
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NASA and European Space Agency visit Leicester for Mars workshop
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Planetary scientists from across the globe, including representatives from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA and European Space Agency, visited the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ last week for a Mars Sample Return workshop.
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Physics and Astronomy student complaints procedure
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The Department of Physics and Astronomy aims to ensure that all our students have the opportunity to benefit from their studies and other opportunities offered by the University. View our student complaints procedure.
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Colin Hyde
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The academic profile of Mr Colin Hyde, Researcher and Outreach Officer, East Midlands Oral History Archive at Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ
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Association for Mathematics in Education Library
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Association for Mathematics in Education Collections The library of the Association for Mathematics in Education (AMiE) comprises nearly 11,000 books and 400 runs of periodicals from many different countries.
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‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight
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Universities of Leicester and Exeter collaborate on mission to send nematode worms to the International Space Station in a ‘Petri Pod’ designed and built at Space Park Leicester