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• Professor Alison Snape

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/council/membership/alison-snape

  Professor Alison Snape is one of the elected Senate representatives on Council appointed in June 2025. Professor Snape is currently the Head of the School of Biological Sciences.

• New advance announced in fight against Alzheimers and Parkinsons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-advance-announced-in-fight-against-alzheimers-and-parkinsons

  A five-year study by an international team led by Leicester has found a way of ‘reversing’ symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as  Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – using fruit flies as test subjects.

• Space power: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator aces vibration test

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/rtg-vibration-test

  Critical milestone for project led by University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester achieved

• Wednesday 29th August Sol 23

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/29/wednesday-29th-august-sol-23/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2012 We have started our drive East to the Glenelg junction.  We will go at about tens of metres per sol over the next few weeks.

• 10th April 2014 Sol 596

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/04/10/10th-april-2014-sol-596/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 10, 2014 Here is a NavCam image of the Kimberley, with Mount Remarkable the small hill (less than 5 m high) which we are pointing towards.

• 14th September 2013 Sol 393

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/09/14/14th-september-2013-sol-393/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 14, 2013 We have reached Waypoint 1, our first stopoff point on the route to Mount Sharp.   The Hazcam image shows Mt. Sharp in the distance and rock outcrop in the foreground.

• 18th June 2014 Sol 664

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/18/18th-june-2014-sol-644/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 18, 2014 Today I am GeoSTL lead.  As we approach our first martian year we are concentrating on driving.  We recently managed 120 m in one sol.

• 19th August 2014 Sol 724

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/08/19/19th-august-sol-724/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 19, 2014 We have started the condensed drilling procedures at Bonanza_King, having driven back out of Hidden Valley and its sandy deposits, to take another route.

• 24th September 2014 Sol 758

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/24/24th-september-2014-sol-758/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 24, 2014 We are drilling at Pahrump (named after an old Shoshone, native American settlement in what is now Nevada).

• 12th September 2015 Sol 1101

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/09/12/12th-september-2015-sol-1101/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 12, 2015 We have a stunning new view of Mt Sharp and the channels running off it. As we drive into the canyons after the Bagnold dunes campaign, we will see high cliffs of sedimentary rocks surrounding us.