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• Astronomers discover four new ‘hot Jupiters’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/hot-jupiters

  An international team of space scientists have discovered four new ‘hot Jupiters’ in our galaxy. University of Leicester PhD researcher Rosanna Tilbrook led and co-authored the study alongside colleagues in the UK, Switzerland, Chile, Germany, the USA and South Africa.

• New £2.9 million project to develop rehabilitation programme for people with multiple long-term conditions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/perform

  Researchers in Leicester are developing a new programme to provide exercise-based rehabilitation to people living with multiple long-term health conditions.

• Leicester scientist helps fine-tune space telescope 1.5million km from home

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/miri-commissioning

  A first image from MIRI was released by NASA in April, giving space scientists a glimpse of the instrument’s capabilities. The first science observations using JWST are expected to commence in July.

• Material Centre at the 28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts & Ionic Liquids, in Greece, June 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/material-centre-at-the-28th-euchem-conference

  The 1st year PhD students, Evangelia Daskalopoulou, attended and presented at the 28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids last week in Greece! According to Evangelia:  "My presentation at the 28th EUCHEM conference was about the redox potentials in...

• New research network to address critical environmental challenges in India

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/new-research-network-to-address-critical-environmental-challenges-in-india

  Researchers from our University's Department of Physics and Astronomy have been funded to set up a new international research network with the Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) to assess the impact of climate on agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic...

• At Leicester we are committed to providing the best opportunities and getting the best out of our students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/201cat-leicester-we-are-committed-to-providing-the-best-opportunities-and-getting-the-best-out-of-our-students201d

  Clearing is an exciting time of the academic year and we are proud to welcome new students to come and study with us. For Diane Fothergill (pictured), an admissions officer at Leicester, 2018 marks her 40th year welcoming students to the University.

• Leicester's out of this world research to be showcased at New Scientist Live

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/leicesters-out-the-world-research-to-be-showcased-at-new-scientist-live

  New Scientist Live 2018 Dr Emma Bunce and Suzie Imber to talk about Leicester's involvement in the upcoming BepiColombo ESA mission to Mercury! ek4f8XjJ_4E Leicester's out the world research to be showcased at New Scientist Live New scientist live 1393|On Thursday 20...

• What do Uranuss cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/what-do-uranus2019s-cloud-tops-have-in-common-with-rotten-eggs

  Hydrogen sulphide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their charm, appears to permeate the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus – as has been long debated, but never definitively proven.

• Zhao Junwei

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/zhao-junwei

  The University has learned with sadness of the death of one of our postgraduate students, Zhao Junwei.

• New understanding of ‘sociable’ slug behaviour calls for better pesticide targeting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/slugs

  Experts from the University of Leicester have been hot on the slime trail of the grey field slug population thanks to innovative technology that can tag and track the behaviour of the invertebrates.