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• Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch

  MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...

• Expansion of GovInfo (US government)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/expansion-of-govinfo-us-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 For those seeking full-text  US government documents Govinfo has now added more than 1500 Congressional Hearings since 2008.

• School children ‘Ask the Astronaut’ with University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/tim-peake-aac-schools

  School children had the chance to submit their questions through the ‘Little Inventors in Space’ programme, led by the Attenborough Arts Centre in partnership with Little Inventors and Inspirate.

• British HinduPunjabi artists exhibition comes to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/british-hindu-punjabi-artist2019s-exhibition-comes-to-leicester

  Internationally established London-based artist Chila Kumari Burman will be exhibiting her recent works at Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester’s arts centre.

• Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-problem-with-apollo

  Apollo 11 launches Apollo 11 launches| As the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface approaches, Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations, School of History, Politics and International Relations, discusses the problems with Apollo.

• New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/goto

  GOTO is designed to fill this observational gap by searching for optical signals in the electromagnetic spectrum that might indicate the source of the gravitational waves – quickly locating the source and using that information to direct a fleet of telescopes, satellites and...

• Barbara Cooke: Page 4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/bc144/page/4/

  Research Associate for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project.

• The power of twitter as a communication tool

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/the-power-of-twitter-as-a-communication-tool/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 http://fordschool.umich.edu/video/newest/1975704207001/ Useful video of a lecture by CEO Dick Costollo at the Ford School on November 2012.

• Banning of burquinis is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship expert suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/banning-of-2018burquinis2019-is-a-step-towards-depriving-muslim-women-of-equal-citizenship-expert-suggests

  The recent banning of the ‘burquini’ in Cannes is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship, according to Dr Saeeda Shah (pictured) from the School of Education.

• PhD researcher developing technique to estimate biomass and carbon more efficiently

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/phd-researcher-to-further-develop-technique-to-estimate-biomass-and-carbon-more-efficiently

  With climate change a pressing issue, measuring carbon in forests and understanding how efficiently carbon is stored is increasingly vital.