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Eddie Izzard brings Stand up for Europe campaign to campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/eddie-izzard-brings-stand-up-for-europe-campaign-to-campus
This event has been cancelled. See here for information. Eddie Izzard today (Monday 23rd May) kicked off a new campaign to visit 31 cities in the next 31 days in a bid to get young people to register for the referendum and vote to stay in Europe.
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First, wonderful, glimpse of Jupiter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/05/first-wonderful-glimpse-of-jupiter/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 5, 2016 Wow! The Juno spacecraft did not disappoint! The images released after Juno’s first science perijove are absolutely stunning.
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Spying on Curiosity and Detecting Methane above the Clay Unit in Gale Crater Sol 2424
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/06/27/spying-on-curiosity-and-detecting-methane-above-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2424/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 27, 2019 Around this locality in the Clay Unit of Gale Crater we have been doing more methane measurements with the SAM instrument. This highlights the enigmatic nature of Mars’ atmospheric methane.
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University entrepreneurs win place on innovative VentureVersity accelerator programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/ventureversity-teams
Judges choose the 11 teams to join first VentureVersity Commercialisation Accelerator, turning academic ideas into reality. Businesses, students, academics and entrepreneurs have joined forces in first-of-its-kind collaboration to help bring more university spin outs to market.
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Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta
A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...
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University of Leicester inspires new HeForShe video by Barclays
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-of-leicester-inspires-barclayss-heforshe-video
Our fellow 10x10x10 IMPACT Champion, Barclays has replicated our film concept for their own HeForShe campaign video. The video shows Barclays CEOs pledging their commitment to HeForShe - the U.N.
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Bookable study spaces
https://le.ac.uk/library/news/bookable-study-spaces
18 August 2020 As part of the wider resumption of services from the Library, we are trialling bookable study spaces for academic staff and postgraduate research students from Wednesday 19th August, with the first spaces available from Thursday 20th August.
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University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/ignite-launch
The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible, dual learning approach to its courses from September, which will see students take more control over their approach to learning...
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Olive Banks (1923-2006)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/olive-banks
“Any attempt to raise feminist arguments was met with indifference if not outright hostility, and the paucity of women academics in general increased my feeling of isolation.
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Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirder
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/5-latest-insights-into-saturns-weird-magnetic-field-only-make-things-weirder
Leicester space scientists, who have been involved in the Cassini mission for decades, discuss the ‘gold mine’ of information the mission has revealed about the ringed planet and their personal connections to the project