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Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-how-penrose-genzel-and-ghez-helped-put-black-holes-at-the-centre-of-modern-astrophysics/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide.
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Research initiative to explore how media can help romance blossom in post-disaster environments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/research-initiative-to-explore-how-media-can-help-romance-blossom-in-post-disaster-environments
Media Cultures, a new research initiative that explores the role of the media in our shared cultural lives, will hold its official launch at a free public event on Thursday 16 June between 4.00-6.30pm at Bankfield House.
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£14 million in funding announced for five research projects into land use and Net Zero
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/lunz-hub
The Land Use for Net Zero Hub, co-led by the University of Leicester and James Hutton Institute, receives £14 million funding for five projects.
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COVID-19 hit businesses set to benefit from University of Leicester's business expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-business-covid
Small and medium businesses affected by COVID-19 in Leicester are to benefit from the expertise of one of the Midlands’ top business schools, as part of a £20million government package to help small businesses recover from the impact of COVID-19 in the long term.
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Protest camps explored in new book co-edited by Leicester academics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/protest-camps-explored-in-new-book-co-edited-by-leicester-academics
A new book on protest camps and political activism, edited by two Leicester academics, will be published on Wednesday 29 March.
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Alumni working outside the UK
https://le.ac.uk/law/study/careers/graduate-profiles/outside-uk
Discover how the legal expertise they gained at Leicester Law School has taken some of our alumni around the world.
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Expert opinions cover Trump Theresa May cyber wars and Le Pen
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/expert-opinions-cover-trump-theresa-may-cyber-wars-and-le-pen
Dr Alex Korb from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's comments about the Holocaust and worrying signs of anti-Semitism in populist movements...
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Expedition 347: Paleoenvironmental evolution of the Baltic Sea Basin through the last glacial cycle
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2012-13/baltic-sea
September 2013 – November 2013 The aim of Expedition 347 is to explore the environmental changes in the Baltic Sea over the last 140,000 years and to acquire the most complete possible record of the paleoceanographic and microbiological history preserved within the sediments...
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Expert comment Has the Olympic Games caught up with the modern world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-comment-has-the-olympic-games-caught-up-with-the-modern-world
Despite greater representation of women in the Rio Olympics than in previous years, anachronisms and gender divisions still remain, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.
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Principles of Ecology and Conservation Biology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/bs2065
Module code: BS2065 In this module you will study the ecological principles behind the structure and function of land and freshwater ecosystems.