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  • Jupiter's crowning glory

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/jupiter

    On 5 July 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered a polar orbit around Jupiter – 13 years after Leicester’s Professor Stan Cowley became attached to the project as Co-Investigator.

  • Leicester professor judges space travel competition

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition

    Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.

  • Oxford Professor to explore the mystery of Alices Adventures in Wonderland on the 150th anniversary of its publication

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/oxford-professor-explores-the-mystery-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-on-the-150th-anniversary-of-its-publication

    On the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland award-winning biographer Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines the lure and lunacy of one of the most iconic children's stories of all time.

  • Heritage panels telling history of Leicester to be installed around city

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/heritage-panels-telling-history-of-leicester-to-be-installed-around-city

    Colin Hyde at the East Midlands Oral History Archive has written the text for forty heritage panels that are being installed around Leicester.

  • Leicester film expert determines that James Bond would be celebrating his 100th birthday this year

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-film-expert-determines-that-james-bond-would-be-celebrating-his-100th-birthday-this-year

    2018 marks the 100th birthday of secret agent James Bond, according to Professor James Chapman from our School of Arts.

  • America’s complicated relationship with healthcare explored in new book

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/transformed-states

    The final book in Professor Martin Halliwell's series on healthcare in the United States will be published on 15 November 2024.

  • The Leicester Weekend University welcomes public to its biggest reunion yet

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/the-leicester-weekend-university-welcomes-public-to-its-biggest-reunion-yet

    We are inviting staff, students, alumni, family and friends and the local community to celebrate our biggest reunion to date – ‘The Leicester Weekend 2016’.

  • Crime writer and creator of Inspector Morse dies

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/crime-writer-and-creator-of-inspector-morse-dies

    The University has learnt of the death of the author Colin Dexter, most famous for creating the character of Inspector Morse and the series of thirteen novels that he features in.

  • Margaret Byron

    https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/margaret-byron

    Margaret has held full-time teaching posts in Higher Education for almost 30 years, teaching Geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

  • Joe Orton: Leicester’s literary anarchist

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/literary-anarchist

    Dr Emma Parker explores the cultural significance of literary anarchist and Leicester native Joe Orton, over a half a century since his death.

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