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• Hanif Kureishi: the Assemblage of a Native Informant

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/03/06/hanif-kureishi-the-assemblage-of-a-native-informant/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on March 6, 2015 There are few writers alive in Britain today who can elicit such polarised, or at best highly qualified, responses as Hanif Kureishi (except, perhaps, his fellow writer and friend Salman Rushdie).

• University library feeds more than the mind thanks to free veg seed giveaway

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-seed-library-free-veg-giveaway

  The University of Leicester’s growing reputation has been bolstered with a scheme which allows its library members to take out seeds, as well as books.

• Using portable nanopore DNA sequencers to combat wildlife crime

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/using-portable-nanopore-dna-sequencers-to-combat-wildlife-crime

  A team from our University has been awarded a prize for their proposal to crack down on wildlife crime using a portable DNA sequencing device, the MinION - developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies - to read the ‘barcode genes’ of animals affected by illegal trafficking.

• Book Group: Unconditional Surrender

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/02/11/surrender/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on February 11, 2015 The Penguin edition of Unconditional Surrender In January, a small cohort of the Book Group met to discuss the last book in Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” trilogy: Unconditional Surrender , which appeared for the...

• December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/12/19/officers/

  Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester

• Messium graduates from ESA-BIC programme, pioneering hyperspectral innovation in agriculture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/messium-esa-bic-programme-hyperspectral-innovation-agriculture

  Company using cutting-edge hyperspectral satellite technology in agriculture has been part of prestigious business support programme at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s £100 million science and innovation park

• Leicester scientist lends insight into Hubble ‘shadow play’ around planet-forming disc

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/shadow-planet-disc

  University of Leicester scientist contributed modelling to new study to give insight into warping of protoplanetary discs by planets.

• June Book Group: A Handful of Dust

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/06/16/handfulofdust/

  Summary of the Waugh Book Groups discussion of A Handful of Dust in June 2014.

• Leicester scientists look to Venus for close-range BepiColombo flyby

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/bepicolombo-venus

  Planetary scientists at the University of Leicester are braced for a flood of new data from one of the closest-ever flybys of Venus.

• First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury

  The mission comprises two science orbiters which will be delivered into complementary orbits around the planet by the Mercury Transfer Module in 2025.