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  • PhD students

    Browse a list of the PhD students working within the Victorian Studies Centre and see their research topics.

  • Company’s mission to revolutionise agriculture and eliminate global waste takes off at Space Park Leicester

    Agri-tech start-up Messium joins the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester.

  • Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope

    MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...

  • Ut vitam habeant – so that they may have life

    On 11 November 1918, the First World War came to an end and the following day Dr Astley Clarke wrote to the local newspaper to announce the creation of the 'Leicester University Fund', in celebration of peace and for the founding of a university college as a memorial.

  • D-Day in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on May 30, 2024 The 1980s saw many oral history projects start across the UK.

  • Conversations with… Prof. John Bridges

    Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 10 September 2021 Professor John Bridges is a Professor of Planetary Science in the School of Physics and Astronomy. An experienced researcher; Prof.

  • Leicester student research stories rated most out of left field in May

    The feasibility of crying a river and the plausibility of spells in the Harry Potter universe are the top two most interesting University research stories in May, according to a list by PR consultancy Gerard Kelly & Partners.

  • Alice Munro, Canadian ‘Master’ of the Short Story

    Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 2013

  • A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.

  • SUREFest – Final Internship Presentations

    This summer, the School of Physics and Astronomy has hosted 11 interns working as part of the SURE (summer undergraduate research experience) programme. 

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