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• As China opens the worlds longest glassbottomed bridge researcher highlights how glass was a symbol of power to ancient cultures

  Date: 24 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/as-china-opens-the-worlds-longest-glass-bottomed-bridge-researcher-highlights-how-glass-was-a-2018symbol-of-power2019-to-ancient-cultures

  Last weekend, the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to visitors in central China, connecting two mountain cliffs in...

• Expert opinions cover magic glass Obamas nuclear policy Kenya and banning the burquini

  Date: 24 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-opinions-cover-magic-glass-obamas-nuclear-policy-kenya-and-banning-the-burquini

  Margaret Maclean from the Special Collections has written a Staff Blog discussing the cast of impossibly colourful characters in the collection of...

• Obamas nuclear policy wishlist appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise

  Date: 19 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018obama2019s-nuclear-policy-wish-list-appears-neither-politically-viable-nor-diplomatically-wise2019

  Without broad approval at home or abroad Obama’s nuclear policy wish-list appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise in the longer...

• Expert opinions cover the Olympic Games and NATO

  Date: 15 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-opinions-cover-the-olympic-games-and-nato

  Dr Tara McCormack from the Department of Politics and International Relations has written an article for Spiked Online about the UK's involvement...

• 2015 was best ever year for tourism in Leicestershire

  Date: 12 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2015-best-ever-year-for-tourism-for-leicestershire

  Leicester City's Premier League success and the ongoing 'Richard III effect' made 2015 the best year ever for tourism in Leicestershire.

• Lecturer curates video exhibition in Argentina and Brazil

  Date: 11 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/lecturer-curates-video-exhibition-in-argentina-and-brazil

  A new video exhibition curated by a lecturer from our School of Modern Languages will explore the world 'between languages' at venues in Brazil...

• The Bulletin Leicester satellite experts to help farmers fertilise

  Date: 11 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/the-bulletin-2013-leicester-satellite-experts-to-help-farmers-fertilise

  In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Leicester satellite experts to help farmers improve fertiliser...

• Second successful season of fieldwork for archaeology students concludes

  Date: 10 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/second-successful-season-of-fieldwork-for-archaeology-students-concludes

  An archaeological project aimed at giving students hands-on experience of excavating and uncovering real historical sites has turned up a host of...

• Medieval skeletons discovered at Leicester Castle

  Date: 9 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/medieval-skeletons-discovered-at-leicester-castle

  A team of Leicester archaeologists has uncovered medieval human remains at Leicester Castle.

• Pope Franciss appeal for Poland to welcome refugees may remain unanswered

  Date: 1 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018pope-francis2019s-appeal-for-poland-to-welcome-refugees-may-remain-unanswered2019

  Pope Francis’s appeal to Polish people to welcome refugees into the country and to embrace EU integration may remain unanswered, according to an...