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Leicester Physicists at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2019/12/16/leicester-physicists-at-american-geophysical-union-fall-meeting-2019/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 December 2019 At the beginning of December, members from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy made their way to San Francisco, USA to present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)...
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Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...
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Entries Open for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/05/entries-open-for-the-three-minute-thesis-competition/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 January 2021 The University of Leicester is back hosting its own 3 Minute Thesis annual competition and this year it is open to Early Career Researchers and PostDocs.
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National Space Centre’s Women in Space Series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/01/national-space-centres-women-in-space-series/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 December 2020 Leicester Space Scientists have been included in a series of interviews by the National Space Centre focussing on Women in Space and careers in STEM.
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The Competition for ESA’s Next Astronauts – Naomi Rowe-Gurney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/25/the-competition-for-esas-next-astronauts-naomi-rowe-gurney/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 June 2021 Applications for ESA’s next astronauts recently closed, and several Leicester scientists were among the 22,500 people who applied – PhD student Naomi Rowe-Gurney was featured in the Telegraph ,...
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Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul
Diane Shader Smith, an author in her own right and editor of Mallory’s posthumous book Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life which inspired the film, said: “Mallory was a gifted storyteller who created poetry out of prosaic experiences.
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Conversations With… Professor Mervyn Roy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/09/27/conversations-with-professor-mervyn-roy/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 27 September 2022 Todays ‘Conversations With…’ article focuses on Professor Mervyn Roy, who has recently taken up the role of Dean of Education for the College of Science and Engineering.
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Why Not…. Join Our All-School Quiz on December 1st?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/23/why-not-join-our-all-school-quiz-on-december-1st/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 November 2020 As we’re nearing the end of term, we thought we’d have a bit of fun, so the Physics Community team is excited to invite all members of the School to an All-School Quiz on Tuesday the 1st of...
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A giant black hole in the Milky Way
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/
Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.
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Astrophotography Competition Time – AstRoSoc Calendar
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/26/astrophotography-competition-time-astrosoc-calendar/
AstroSoc Competition