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Sports centre to raise money for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/sports-centre-to-raise-money-for-charity
On Friday 18 March, the Danielle Brown Sports Centre will be hosting a jam-packed charity event to raise money for Sports Relief.
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Kitchen table
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/kitchen-table
Read the article "The kitchen table" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Creating a unit workbook for use on iPads
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/teaching/workbook
Unit workbooks, handbooks and other text-based learning materials for use with iPads are essentially Word documents saved as PDF documents, then shared out to students through the virtual learning environment (VLE), Blackboard.
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November Book Group: The Loved One
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/11/10/menatarms/
Deatils of the November Waugh Book Group meeting, 2014
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The Connected Histories of the BBC project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/the-connected-histories-of-the-bbc-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 The Connected Histories project was a six year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by a team from the University of Sussex.
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American Federal reserve launch Facebook page
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/american-federal-reserve-launch-facebook-page/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised.
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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
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Tim Peake describes the first time he saw Earth from space in new video
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/tim-peake-to-receive-an-honorary-degree
The University has conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science upon British astronaut Tim Peake during a visit to the National Space Centre in Leicester on Friday 14 October as part of a wider tour of the UK.
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Juno Mission unveils the depth and structure of planet’s shrinking red spot and colourful bands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2021/10/29/juno-mission-unveils-the-depth-and-structure-of-planets-shrinking-red-spot-and-colourful-bands/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on October 29, 2021 Dr.