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• Pokmon Go helps highlight Leicesters inventive approach to communications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/pokemon-go-helps-to-highlight-leicesters-inventive-approach-to-communications

  The Pokémon Go craze has helped millions of people around the world to ease the Type 2 diabetes burden by walking and catching digital monsters. Now, the viral app has helped our University snag an accolade for its 'inventive' approach to communications.

• Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge

  As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.

• Sharp eyes to the skies

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/satellite-climate-change

  Professor Hartmut Boesch gives insight into the importance of improving satellite technology in monitoring greenhouse gases from space, and the effect this will have on our understanding of climate change.

• Cleaning up the oil industry

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/cleaning-oil-industry

  Crude oil spills are one of the worst environmental disasters. Professor Hongbiao Dong explains the importance of moving away from fossil fuels, and how new welding techniques are reducing pipeline failure rates.

• Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.

• Code of practice concerning freedom of speech

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/codes-practice/freedom-speech

  The University of Leicester affirms its legal duty to uphold freedom of speech within the law, ensuring open debate while promoting dignity and respect.

• February Book Group: Decline and Fall

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/02/28/bookgroupdecline/

  A summary of the February 2014 Book Group meeting

• Juno’s First 150 Days

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/11/29/the-first-150-days-of-juno/

  University of Leicester, Staff Blogs

• Introducing SKYLARK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/introducing-skylark/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 The SKYLARK rocket dominates our newly-revamped foyer in the School of Physics and Astronomy. This blog post provides some of the history of Leicester’s involvement in the SKYLARK project.

• In Search of Nancy – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/01/20/insearchofnancy/

  Research Associate Barbara Cooke's first trip to the Evelyn Waugh Archive, Somerset, in November 2013.