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• Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/ostracod

  The research team’s findings, published in The Royal Society’s Biology Letters, show how ostracods began to swim into estuaries about 420 million years ago during the Silurian Period, beginning their exploration of many new habitats.

• PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations – people do

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/03/06/powerpoint-doesnt-kill-presentations-people-do/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on March 6, 2017 Bent Meier Sørensen, a Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen University wrote an impressive article in The Independent last...

• New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/4-new-study-underway-to-find-best-treatment-for-wake-up-stroke-patients

  New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients led by Professor Thompson Robinson, Head of Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

• Space Park Leicester to bring space back down to Earth at national conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-national-conference

  Cutting-edge work of University of Leicester’s science park to be showcased from 16-17 July, including an early prototype of the Double Walled Isolator: a miniature laboratory for returned extraterrestrial samples

• Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

  Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.

• Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/14/

  Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

• Cast of ancient skull of Bede the Father of English history rediscovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/cast-of-ancient-skull-of-bede-the-father-of-english-history-rediscovered

  A cast of the skull of Bede – the ‘Father of English History’ – has been rediscovered by Professor Jo Story from the School of History within the anatomical collections of the Duckworth Laboratory in the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the...

• Adam Kay, Russell Kane and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock headline 2024 Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/literary-leicester

  Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester’s annual free literature festival, will return next month.

• Fold-out solar blankets to power satellites receives £1 million boost

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/fold-out-solar-blankets-power-satellites

  A new concept for a solar blanket to power satellites that can be folded away will be developed with engineering expertise from the University of Leicester thanks to new funding.

• New space research to survey chimpanzee habitats

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/jgi-laser-chimps

  Professor Kevin Tansey, of the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, will work closely with colleagues at Space Park Leicester – the first phase of which is now complete – in supporting the research and knowledge exchange programme.