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Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.
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International day marks the issues behind avoidable deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/avoidable-deaths-network-international-awareness-day
The third instalment of an annual global day of awareness of the issues around avoidable deaths takes place this week.
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Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/svom-mxt
Mission to find gamma ray bursts is latest to use technology from University of Leicester in x-ray optics
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About
https://le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/about
Young people reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic through political cartoons Young people are given a voice through political cartooning as the University of Leicester, Shout Out UK, and Cartooning for Peace collaborate on a successfully awarded UKRI COVID-19 rapid response...
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Funding opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/funding-opportunities
The British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award will fund several new posts for high calibre researchers early in their careers and provide them with the training, mentoring and support to enable them to become the research leaders of the future.
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UK team to lead European mission to study new planets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/uk-team-to-lead-european-mission-to-study-new-planets
The ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) mission was selected as the next European Space Agency (ESA) science mission, putting UK leadership at the heart of research into planets that lie outside our solar system -- exoplanets.
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Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-technology-ultra-clean-mini-lab-extra-terrestrial-samples
University of Leicester’s science and innovation park to lead on a European Space Agency project to build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI) to support analysis of extra-terrestrial samples, to reduce the risk of cross contamination on Earth
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Elfen
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/elfen
Elfen is a novel space mission that will constrain the influence of heavy ions on the dayside of the magnetosphere, as well as the mechanism that feed the formation and evolution of the nightside low-latitude plasma sheet.
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Academic staff
https://le.ac.uk/cssp/people/academic
Find out more about academic staff in the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.
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Tan Yue: Three years after graduation, I found my way home
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/tan-yue
Tan Yue graduated with an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies in 2013 and has taken her experience and knowledge back to her home country and started her career in Guangdong Times Museum.