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Leicestershire girls challenged to uncover the story behind Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicestershire-girls-challenged-to-uncover-the-story-behind-richard-iii
Thousands of girls from across Leicestershire are being challenged to find out more about King Richard III as part of an innovative new badge from Girlguiding Leicestershire.
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Earth-based observations prepare Juno for the Great Red Spot Encounter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/06/30/earth-based-observations-prepare-juno-for-the-great-red-spot-encounter/
University of Leicester staff blogs
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Joe Ortons celebrated play Loot to be explored 50 years after premiere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/joe-orton2019s-celebrated-play-loot-to-be-explored-50-years-after-premiere
A two-day celebration of Joe Orton's Loot organised by a University of Leicester academic marks 50 years since the London premiere of his ‘comedy of horrors’.
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Partisanship, Propaganda and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/partisanship-propaganda-and-disinformation-online-media-and-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 The Latest report from the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University examines the role of traditional and new media during the 2016 presidential election campaigns.
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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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Local meeting of the minds leads to creative triumph
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/local-meeting-of-the-minds-leads-to-creative-triumph
Following the successful Journeys in Translation event hosted by the University's Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) last year, a group of translating students at our University have worked closely with local poet Pam Thompson to provide their...
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The maths behind what makes a Formula One world champion
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-maths-behind-what-makes-a-formula-one-world-champion
With Lewis Hamilton recently becoming three-time Formula One world champion, a new course offered by the University looks at how calculus is used in motor racing to calculate fuel consumption and the forces a driver experiences during a race.
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The right rubber for the job
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/the-importance-of-using-the-right-rubber-for-the-job
Researchers from the Department of Geology have discovered that when it comes to rubbers, textured surfaces, and reproduction, more fluid formulations have greater reliability than those that are thick and sticky.
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Attenborough Arts Centre’s Bob Christer presents in Berlin at international Falling Walls Engage Awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/bob-christer
This November, Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier Programme Manager Bob Christer spent a week in Berlin representing the Atelier Labs programme as a selected winner as part of the international Falling Walls Engage Awards.
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Videogames
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/videogames/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently a British teenager won almost a million in championships of the computer game Fortnite.