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Members of University of Leicester community recognised in New Year’s Honours
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/new-year-honours
A University of Leicester student who struck gold at the 2024 Olympics, an internationally recognised surgeon and an expert in atmospheric science are among the outstanding individuals announced in this year’s New Year’s Honours list.
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Leicester “leads the way” on new National Space Strategy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/uk-space-strategy
The University of Leicester has today (Monday) welcomed publication of the UK Government’s new National Space Strategy.
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jbridges: Page 24
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/24/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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Lifting: An Easter Custom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/03/21/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on March 21, 2016 Lifting – an Easter Custom from William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), vol. 1, p.
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The spacecraft that came before Juno
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/12/the-spacecraft-that-came-before-juno/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 12, 2016 The Juno spacecraft is not the first to visit Jupiter – this honour goes to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft back in December of 1973.
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Brightest Gamma-Ray Source Detected by Swift
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/10/13/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-detected-by-swift/
On the afternoon of Sunday 9th October, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift triggered on a new and incredibly bright gamma-ray source - write Kim Page, Andy Beardmore and Phil Evans.
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Anarchy in the UK (‘s Most Famous Fortress)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/10/21/anarchy-in-the-uk-s-most-famous-fortress/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines the first output of a new collaborative research project on the history of labour organisations in the British Empire.
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Neisseria meningitidis
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis/neisseria-meningitidis
Neisseria meningitidis, meningitis, meningitis awareness, meningococcus, gram-negative, pathogen, microbiology, nasopharynx, septicaemia, vaccine, vaccination, ACWY, phase variation, genetics, genome, N. lactamica
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Travel
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/hydrogenase-2026/travel
Webpage describing Travel possibilities for reaching Leicester for the Hydrogenase conference in 2026
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University library collections reveal coronation celebrations across time in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-special-collections
An insight how coronations have been celebrated in Leicester in years past, courtesy of the University of Leicester Special Collections team.