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• University of Leicester remembers playwright Joe Orton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/university-of-leicester-remembers-playwright-joe-orton

  Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton and the occasion is being marked by a host of events remembering his work and involving our University. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a leading postwar playwright.

• Leicesters social media superstar welcomes robot to the medical school

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester2019s-2018social-media-superstar2019-welcomes-robot-to-the-medical-school

  The winner of a national competition to find education’s social media superstars has welcomed a robot named Sanbot Elf to our medical school.

• Incunabula in Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/10/incunabula-in-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 10, 2014 For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501).

• Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/tracking-a-solar-eruption-through-the-solar-system

  Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

• Living relatives

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/living-relatives

  Through DNA analysis from living relatives, we were able to confirm the identity of the skeleton in Greyfriars.

• Finding Dolly Shepherd in Historical Directories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/07/finding-dolly-shepherd-in-historical-directories/

  Guest blog post on Edwardian Lady Parachutist Dolly Shepherd, by Debra Wallace

• Leicestershire Innovation Festival launches from Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/innovation-festival

  Will Wells, Commercial Director at the University of Leicester, later led guests on a tour of the cutting-edge facilities at Space Park Leicester, ahead of the cluster’s formal launch in March.

• Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright to share personal story of resilience at Literary Leicester event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/fred-daguiar

  Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright will be giving the University of Leicester an exclusive insight into his personal story of resilience as part of this year’s Literary Leicester Festival.

• Interview with Sharon Wang

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/05/31/introducing-dr-sharon-wang-postdoctoral-research-associate-maths-for-arch-i-scan/

  Interview with Dr. Sharon (Shuihua) Wang, the new Mathematics Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Arch-I-Scan project.

• August Book Group: Late Short Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/09/01/lateshortstories/

  Summary of the Evelyn Waugh Book Group's discussions of the later short stories