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• Celebrating Leicester’s Citizens of Change on National Graduates Day

  Date: 29 Jul 2020

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is marking National Graduates Day to celebrate the resilience and achievements of graduates from the class of 2020...

• Heightened COVID-19 risk for BAME healthcare workers to be examined in major UK study

  Date: 28 Jul 2020

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  More than £2m of Government funding has been awarded to academics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ to investigate why people from BAME (black, Asian...

• Blood cancer breakthrough offers clues for tailored patient treatment

  Date: 19 Jul 2020

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  Patients with blood cancer could be offered a tailored course of treatment in the future, after Leicester academics successfully trialled the use...

• Signs of early heart failure revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes

  Date: 16 Jul 2020

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  Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity.

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  Date: 16 Jul 2020

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  New research by Â鶹ÊÓƵ academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

• University urges city to stay strong as Leicester lockdown continues

  Date: 15 Jul 2020

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  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah urges Leicester to stay strong and continue to follow Government guidelines, after...

• Ancient skeleton provides the earliest evidence of a pet cat in Kazakhstan

  Date: 8 Jul 2020

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  Uncovered in an urban settlement in Dzhankent, Kazakhstan, the analysis of the ancient animal skeleton shows this to be the first domesticated cat...

• First glimpse into the core of a planet

  Date: 30 Jun 2020

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  The surviving core of a planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star by a team of academics, including Â鶹ÊÓƵ astronomers,...

• Leicester championed as UK’s top recruiter to RECOVERY trial

  Date: 16 Jun 2020

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  The Leicester COVID-19 research team, made up of researchers and clinicians from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Leicester’s Hospitals, were...

• Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered

  Date: 7 Jun 2020

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  A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone...