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• Our Space Heritage: Public event to celebrate Leicester’s long-standing space expertise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/our-space-heritage

  Professor Pounds, who was also guest of honour at the opening of Leicester’s new Space Research Centre earlier this year, said: “Moving to a lectureship in Leicester from the UCL Rocket Group – with a doctoral thesis still incomplete – reflected the pace of change in the...

• Groundbreaking event marks the start of extension to Students Union building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/groundbreaking-event-marks-the-start-of-extension-to-students-union-building

  Construction has officially commenced on an ambitious £21 million extension to the Students’ Union building.

• Green screen technology in the Classroom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/10/02/green-screen-technology-in-the-classroom/

  Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 2, 2019   The technology is now surprisingly easy to use (see below), but WHY would you want to place yourself or students in front of a different background? Purely for the fun...

• A student view of your Blackboard course

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/22/a-student-view-of-your-blackboard-course/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 22, 2016 Blackboard has a useful function – Edit Mode – which allows you to get an idea of what your Blackboard course looks like to students.

• Congratulations to Sarah Casewell and the Backyard Worlds Team

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/24/congratulations-to-sarah-casewell-and-the-backyard-worlds-team/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 June 2021 Enormous congratulations to the Backyard Worlds Team, including Leicester scientist Dr. Sarah Casewell, on being the 2021 recipients of a Robert H Goddard award for science.

• Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds

  A new study has demonstrated that using  the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can improve decisions about antibiotic prescribing and help combat rising levels of antibiotic resistance.

• National Space Centre: Space Lates – the Night Sky

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/19/national-space-centre-space-lates-the-night-sky/

  Join the team at the National Space Centre on January 20th, where they will explore the night sky, from constellation mythology to the future of the Universe and all about our own star; the Sun.

• Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/page/4/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• reproducibility and coding style

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/teachingr/2020/09/28/reproducibility-and-style/

  discuss of the way that reproducibility and coding style are taught on my introductory short course om data analysis with R and the tidyverse

• Surnames and the Y chromosome

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome

  Research Fellow: Dr Turi King - Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain and lead researcher on the Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England project In Britain, we have heritable surnames.