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• New investment in seismic monitoring facility at University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/seis-uk-nerc-funding

  Leicester-based SEIS-UK is to benefit from new funding from Natural Environmental Research Council, as will two facilities led by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), which is based at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s space hub

• The largest prison in the world

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/19/reflections-on-the-worlds-largest-prison/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...

• Blown away One Show feature on the marvels of scientific glassblowing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/blown-away-one-show-feature-on-the-marvels-of-scientific-glassblowing

  Tucked away in our Department of Chemistry is a workshop where Gayle Price, the University’s Scientific Glassblower, spends her time creating specialised glassware and apparatus for research and teaching purposes.

• Professor Sir Nilesh Samani awarded European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/nilesh-samani-european-society

  Sir Nilesh Samani, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospitals of Leicester, and Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, has been awarded the prestigious European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal...

• Quarter-of-a-century plant blooming takes centre stage in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/agave

  A rare plant that flowers once every 25 to 30 years has finally bloomed in the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden.

• Professor Robert Winston discusses sciences dark side

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/professor-robert-winston-to-discuss-science2019s-2018dark-side2019

  A full report on Lord Winston's talk now available here The eminent medical scientist and television presenter Professor Robert Winston is to give a glimpse at the ‘dark side’ of scientific discovery at the next Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture for the University...

• University research plays ‘vital role’ in fighting climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/climate-exp0

  Professor Susan Page, from the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, shared leading research into using peatland environments to capture carbon as one form of nature-based solution.

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  Dr Henrik Melin is the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) James Webb Fellow at the University of Leicester.

• Singing Criminologist Ashleigh empowers with her music

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/2018singing-criminologist2019-ashleigh-empowers-with-her-music

  Master’s student at Leicester Ashleigh Temperley recently created an original song entitled ‘People with Voices’ as part a creative module during her degree. However, for Ashleigh, the song’s purpose is far more than academic.

• Ground-breaking lawyer joins University Law Society as president

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/luls-president

  Leicester University Law Society has announced that I. Stephanie Boyce will act as its president for the next academic year, starting in October 2022.