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Lecture to explore the science of colour
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/lecture-to-explore-the-science-of-colour
Why is fire yellow? Why is your gas hob blue? What makes traffic lights red, amber and green? These phenomena and many others will be examined in a free public lecture on Thursday 17 September at the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre 3 of the Ken Edwards Building at 6.30pm.
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Future health technology needs to take into account children and young people’s preferences, say researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/health-technologies
Health technology should be easy to use, have the ability to be personalised, allow the user to choose how their information is shared and where possible, have in-built games and incentives according to children and young people
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Conference explores regional languages of France
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/conference-explores-regional-languages-of-france
An upcoming conference at the University of Leicester will gather experts in the field of French language policies and planning with a particular focus on regional languages.
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Space explorers to reveal how the Moon can unlock the Solar System’s secrets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/unlocking-moon
Talk at Space Park Leicester on 24 June by Co-founder and Chief Scientist of the first commercial company to soft land a spacecraft on the Moon.
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University of Leicester Bake Off star to join Vice-Chancellor at UK technicians conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/bake-off-star-vice-chancellor-technicians-conference
The University of Leicester’s Great British Bake Off finalist will join the institution’s Vice-Chancellor at the UK’s largest conference for technical professionals in higher education and research.
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Peniche Fado
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/11/10/peniche-fado/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on November 10, 2014 During a recent trip to Portugal I took the chance to visit the fortress of Peniche, situated on the rocky coast in the homonymous village, approximately one hundred kilometres north of Lisbon.
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Advertisements from Exponent women’s newspaper
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/advertisements-from-exponent-womens-newspaper/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 A historic database of advertisements from Woman’s Exponent newspaper from 1872-1914, made available free online from Brigham Young University’s Harold B.
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School of English Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/page/2/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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NGTS discovers an extremely small star in an eclipsing binary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/09/01/ngts-discovers-an-extremely-small-star-in-an-eclipsing-binary/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 September 2020 Leicester PhD student Jack Acton discusses his latest discovery, a record breaking eclipsing binary system found in data from the NGTS exoplanet survey.
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Percy Gee Building
https://le.ac.uk/about/campus-development/percy-gee
We are developing proposals to extend and enhance the eastern wing of the Percy Gee Building, home to our Students’ Union, as part of our continued improvement of the student experience.