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• How women shaped University history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/how-women-shaped-university-history

  The Special Collections team in the University’s Library has unearthed a selection of treasures from the University Archives providing an insight into the University’s history and revealing how women have helped shape the institution from its foundation to the present day.

• Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/space-research-centre

  As well as serving as the first director of Leicester’s ground-breaking Space Research Centre, Professor Wells was, alongside Professor Pounds, also a key driver of the project which would become the National Space Centre which neighbours Space Park Leicester.

• New space missions to explore suns’ influence on habitable worlds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/sirius-elfen

  Two proposals for missions led by the University of Leicester receive £500,000 funding from UK Space Agency

• Students star on historic day for Leicester Tigers Women

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/leicester-tigers-women

  Rugby players from the University of Leicester featured in an historic fixture for Leicester Tigers last week.

• Publications

  https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/nucleus/publications

  Browse the publications written by academics where the Nucleus genomics facility at the University of Leicester has been of use.

• Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-problem-with-apollo

  Apollo 11 launches Apollo 11 launches| As the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface approaches, Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations, School of History, Politics and International Relations, discusses the problems with Apollo.

• City Council and University of Leicester support Leicester businesses in becoming more sustainable

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/18-sustainable-business-support

  Businesses in Leicester are being offered a range of support to become more sustainable by Leicester City Council and the University of Leicester’s Innovation Hub.

• Gamma-ray burst is ‘Rosetta Stone’ for finding neutron star collisions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gamma-ray-burst-neutron-star

  A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by a team of scientists including astronomers at the University of Leicester to a neutron star merger.

• Antimicrobial therapy can prevent sepsis in pneumonia patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/antimicrobial-therapy-can-prevent-sepsis-in-pneumonia-patients

  Antimicrobial therapy targeting specific cells in the immune system could prevent sepsis and life-threatening disease in people suffering from pneumonia, new research led by Leicester has shown.

• 350 Years Ago Pepys and the Easter of 1666

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/350-years-ago-pepys-and-the-easter-of-1666

  350 years ago, on the Easter of 1666, famous diarist Samuel Pepys recorded how he failed to join a Church of England service at the Chapel in Whitehall Palace as it was too crowded over the festive period.