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• New Year Honours for University of Leicester Chancellor and Professor both leading the way in space science

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/new-years-honours-emma-bunce-maggie-aderin-pocock

  A space scientist, whose influence has reached throughout the solar system, and the University’s Chancellor, who encourages students to ‘reach for the stars’, are among this year’s recipients of New Year’s Honours.

• Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.

• Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/04/30/leicester-space-pioneers-return-to-unveil-new-space-research-centre/

  Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.

• University backs campaign for statue of iconic Leicester playwright Joe Orton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-joe-orton-statue

  joe orton statute the joe orton statue appeal|The University of Leicester’s involvement with, and celebration of, the legacy of Leicester playwright Joe Orton continues with the announcement of a crowdfunding appeal to raise money for a statute.

• Childrens attitudes towards the law revealed through innovative digital game project

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/children2019s-attitudes-towards-the-law-revealed-through-innovative-digital-game-project

  A new project using a fun digital game aims to find out what primary school children really know and think about the law and their rights.

• Astronomers look ahead to first light from JWST

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/jwst-time-allocation

  • Professor Nial Tanvir and Dr Rhaana Starling are co-investigators (co-Is) of a programme which will use spectroscopy to map the distribution of elements formed by gamma-ray bursts.

• Leicester astronomers play key role in groundbreaking movie of the cosmos by new observatory

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/astronomers-groundbreaking-movie-cosmos-new-observatory

  The decade-long wait for UK astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which University of Leicester space scientists have contributed to, reveals dazzling first images

• Groundbreaking event marks the start of extension to Students Union building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/groundbreaking-event-marks-the-start-of-extension-to-students-union-building

  Construction has officially commenced on an ambitious £21 million extension to the Students’ Union building.

• Dr Kees Straatman

  https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/aif/contact/kees-straatman

  Learn more about the manager of the Advanced Imaging Facility in the Core Biotechnology Services, Dr Kees Straatman.

• Juno and Leicester – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/23/juno-and-the-university-of-leicester/

  University of Leicester's history in space and planetary sciences, and the relation to the Juno mission today.