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• New Vice-Chancellor named

  Date: 18 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/20-new-vice-chancellor-named

  The University of Leicester is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nishan Canagarajah as its next President and Vice-Chancellor with...

• Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

  Date: 16 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-problem-with-apollo

  As the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface approaches, Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations,...

• Danielle Brown inducted into BUCS Hall of Fame

  Date: 17 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/18-danielle-brown-bucs-hall-of-fame

  On Wednesday 5 June, University of Leicester Law graduate Danielle Brown was inducted into the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Hall...

• Schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp

  Date: 13 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/14-refugee-camp

  Appeal for more schools to become ‘Schools of Sanctuary’. Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.

• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  Date: 11 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly...

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  Date: 22 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found...

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 2 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-country-houses

  ITV programme explores research into connections between English country houses, Africa, the Caribbean and East India Company.

• Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

  Date: 16 Apr 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-black-british-history-workshop

  The University of Leicester and the Centre for New Writing is set to host the prestigious Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ 10th Black British...

• Leicester academic speaks at UCLA symposium on race and human rights

  Date: 13 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/13-symposium-ucla-race-human-rights

  The University of Leicester was represented by Dr Vidya Kumar, Associate Professor of Law at Leicester Law School, at a symposium titled ‘Critical...

• Immersive exhibition sheds new light on Calke Abbey’s ‘isolated’ family and gets people talking about loneliness and isolation

  Date: 1 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/01-calke-abbey

  ©National Trust / Rod Kirkpatrick Researchers from the University’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, working with the National Trust to...