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Archaeological Theory Summer School 2026
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/material-worlds-past-present/summer-school
Find out more about the summer school at the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present.
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Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star
A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star detected to date.
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Veronica Heney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/vh58/
Communications Assistant to the SAPPHIRE Group
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jbridges: Page 29
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/29/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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Midlands universities in cold energy tie-up
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/midlands-universities-in-cold-energy-tie-up
A prototype refrigerated lorry cooled by liquid nitrogen rather than diesel is set to be the first beneficiary of a £60m energy research collaboration by six Midlands universities - including the University of Leicester.
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New pamphlets
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/publications/pamphlets
The Centre for New Writing regularly publishes new writing and has produced a number of poetry, fiction and non-fiction pamphlets, which are available at no cost.
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Criminology student selected for Leicester Tigers 2022/23 squad
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/leicester-tigers
A student who came late to the game of rugby has been selected to play for Leicester Tigers. Lucrezia Iavarone started her rugby career playing for the University of Leicester women’s team in 2018, whilst studying Criminology.
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Black British history scholarship is established to honour historian and activist Len Garrison
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/black-british-history-scholarship-historian-activist-len-garrison
Three postgraduates will be able study Black British history with the University of Leicester free of charge, thanks to a scholarship set up to honour alumnus Len Garrison.
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MIXS: studying Mercury in detail
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs
BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.
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Famous names
https://le.ac.uk/english/about/famous-names
Learn more about some of the famous names associated with English at the University of Leicester, including Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. Find out about some of our notable graduates.