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• Chicxulub crater study suggests asteroid impacts could create habitats for life

  Date: 17 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/chicxulub-crater-study-suggests-asteroid-impacts-could-create-habitats

  Scientists studying a 65-million-year old crater in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by an asteroid impact, claim it could have provided a habitat for...

• Prestigious scholarship for talented student with passion for engineering

  Date: 11 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/prestigious-scholarship-for-talented-student-with-passion-for-engineering

  Our University is celebrating future leaders and the benefits of pursuing a career in engineering by supporting young students with a passion for...

• Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain

  Date: 10 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain

  A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los...

• Leicester researchers lay it on the line

  Date: 9 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-researchers-lay-it-on-the-line

  The work of Leicester engineers has been profiled in a national publication for industry.

• Leicester geologist contributes to major project examining the technosphere

  Date: 4 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-geologist-contributes-to-major-project-examining-the-2018technosphere2019

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from our Department of Geology is working with artist Anne-Sophie Milon on a new project examining the ‘technosphere’...

• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  Date: 2 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• Cracking the complexities of metal processing

  Date: 24 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/cracking-the-complexities-of-metal-processing

  The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed Professor Hongbiao Dong to a five-year Research Chair at our University, with the aim of developing...

• Department of Geology to host Palaeontology conference

  Date: 13 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/department-of-geology-to-host-palaeontology-conference

  The University's Department of Geology Palaeobiology Research Group has announced it will host the early career researchers’ conference...

• New Centre highlights research into creativity social justice and inequality

  Date: 10 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-centre-highlights-research-into-creativity-social-justice-and-inequality

  A new research Centre focusing on issues of social injustice both locally and globally is being formed by academics in the Department of Geography.

• Historic England to view work on preserving iconic Engineering Building

  Date: 3 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/historic-england-to-view-work-on-preserving-iconic-engineering-building

  Painstaking work to replace the iconic roof of our historic Engineering Building is to be examined by heritage experts this week.