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• Emma makes history as Leicester Medical School marks 50-year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/emma-makes-history-leicester-medical-school-50-year-anniversary

  Emma Zugic made University of Leicester history this week as she became the final student to graduate from the Medical School in its 50th year.

• Limited tickets left for immersive respiratory virus event at King Power Stadium this summer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/respiratory-king-power-event

  An interactive science event turning the home of Leicester City Football Club into a respiratory virus museum has sold out in just five days.

• New satellite to give global view on Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’, thanks to Leicester-built telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/satellite-earth-magnetic-shield-leicester-built-telescope

  Scientists at Space Park Leicester led development of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), which will provide unprecedented global view of Earth’s magnetic field

• Brussels Street Lamp Museum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/01/07/a-most-illuminating-museum/

  A blog post from the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester about the Brussels Street Lamp Museum

• Advanced Digital, AI and Manufacturing Technologies for Space: The second phase of Space Park Leicester is completed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/spl-phase-2

  Professor Richard Ambrosi, Professor of Space Instrumentation and Space Nuclear Power Systems at the University of Leicester, said: “We are extremely proud of completing phase two of this project.

• Gaia Data Release 3: New space data serves as ‘complete step change’ in understanding of our Univers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/06/30/gaia-data-release-3-new-space-data-serves-as-complete-step-change-in-understanding-of-our-universe/

  Space scientists have today (Monday) announced the discovery of a ‘super Jupiter’ orbiting a white dwarf, the first detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia mission.

• Magnifying the Past with JWST

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/28/magnifying-the-past-with-jwst/

  In this guest blog post by Leicester student Roshni Bakrania, which summarises a ResearchBites talk by Dr. Henrik Melin, we explore the results from the first few months of observations by JWST.

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/01/alice-munro-canadian/

  Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 2013

• Colourful plastics may lead to more microplastics: new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/microplastic-colours

  Study led by University of Leicester concludes that colourants in plastic can affect the rate at which it breaks down and can lead to more harmful microplastics released into the environment

• Long-term exposure to traffic noise may lead to weight gain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/traffic-noise-weight-gain

  A new study by the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford has found a connection between increased traffic noise and obesity.