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• Crocus Sundays signal the arrival of spring alongside hedgehog display for children

  Date: 25 Feb 2015

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  The springtime blooming of crocuses in the Botanic Garden will this year be accompanied by the unusual sight of thousands of salt-dough hedgehogs...

• Bethan wins ‘PhD Student of the Year’ in national awards

  Date: 28 Jul 2019

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  Congratulations to Bethan Rogoyski who has been named ‘PhD Student of the Year’ in the inaugural Postgraduate Awards, organised by FindAMasters.

• The maths behind what makes a Formula One world champion

  Date: 2 Nov 2015

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  With Lewis Hamilton recently becoming three-time Formula One world champion, a new course offered by the University looks at how calculus is used...

• University hosts national event celebrating interdisciplinary research and global impact

  Date: 18 Mar 2019

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  Â鶹APP hosted 50 Rutherford Fellows representing 15 countries in an event facilitating interdisciplinary research and...

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  Date: 14 Apr 2022

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  The first large-scale study of its kind has uncovered more than 4,000 years’ worth of distinctive foraging behaviour in a species once driven to...

• Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

  Date: 24 Mar 2021

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  The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience...

• Study finds final year individual bonuses are counter-productive

  Date: 24 Nov 2015

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  A new study by researchers in the UK and Australia has found it makes better business sense to reward team performance rather than provide...

• Trauma patient deaths peak at two weeks

  Date: 2 Sep 2016

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  A new study by University of Leicester academics has shown that lower severity trauma patients could be more likely to die after two to three weeks.

• New way to determine protection of Men B vaccine against different strains

  Date: 13 Jun 2018

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  Researchers at Leicester and the Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine,...

• New species of ancient tongue worm discovered

  Date: 21 May 2015

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  An international team of scientists led by Leicester researchers has discovered a new species of fossil - a 'tongue worm' - in England and...