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• University developments shortlisted among region’s best new buildings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/procon-finalists

  The Percy Gee Building – first opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958, shortly after the University was granted its Royal Charter – has been extended with a new four-storey, 3,000 square metre East Wing.

• Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/08/saturns-high-altitude-winds-generate-an-extraordinary-aurorae/

  Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.

• AutumnFest arrives at the University’s Botanic Gardens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/autumnfest

  Leicester’s Botanic Gardens will be alive with music, workshops, arts and crafts, children’s activities, entertainment and more this September

• Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite

  Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.

• Leicester wins Duolingo’s University Challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-wins-duolingo-university-challenge

  Dr Fiona Ashmore from the University of Leicester has been crowned the first winner of the Duolingo English Test University Challenge.

• COVID and Africa’s HE sector

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/covid-and-africas-he-sector/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Survey findings: Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, how is Africa’s higher education sector faring?   Latest research from the Africa portal where you can find more papers and...

• Keep you titbits, let’s have full equality, inclusion and representation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/07/27/keep-you-titbits-lets-have-full-equality-inclusion-and-representation/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on July 27, 2017 50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed.

• University of Leicester scientists capture Neptune’s auroras for first time using JWST

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/neptune-auroras-first-time-jwst

  Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under JWST’s powerful gaze, as team led from University of Leicester observed Neptune using JWST’s near-infrared instrument

• University of Leicester diabetes professors named among nation’s lifesavers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/16-nations-lifesavers

  Identifying and preventing diabetes 1b6DMuqdN1c|Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Professor Melanie Davies CBE featured in national campaign.

• Donor’s legacy will help train future surgeons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/surgical-suite

  The dying wish of a former surgeon is helping medical students at the University of Leicester to follow in his footsteps