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• Advanced Mechanical Engineering with Management MSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/advanced-mechanical-engineering-with-management-msc/2026

  A mechanical engineering career often takes more than technical expertise. This degree combines advanced-level learning with management theory and practice – everything you need to make a real impact out in the field.

• Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/

  Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.

• Former Universities Minister David Willetts to give public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/former-universities-minister-david-willetts-to-give-public-lecture

  This Thursday (11 June), we are giving you the chance to hear the man who has shaped higher education policy for the past four years talk about the future of UK science and innovation. The Rt Hon.

• Space scientist to give talk on space exploration as Tim Peake embarks on his first spacewalk

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/space-scientist-to-give-talk-on-space-exploration-as-tim-peake-embarks-on-his-first-spacewalk

  As British astronaut Tim Peake takes his first steps outside the International Space Station, enthusiasts are invited to watch the historic event and listen to a talk by Professor John Bridges (pictured) from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the...

• University mathematicians calculate how Foxes won the English Premier League

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-mathematicians-calculate-how-foxes-won-the-english-premier-league

  Mathematicians at the University have generated the perfect formula to describe the historic achievement of Leicester City Football Club who won the English Premier League with 5000-1 odds at the start of the season.

• Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/big-bang

  A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviours originated around 650 million years ago.

• Blue sky thinking to show support for National Health Service

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/blue-sky-thinking-to-show-support-for-national-health-service

  Our University will be backing the blue this week as it lights up its flagship medical building in celebration of 70 years of the National Health Service. The George Davies Centre will be bathed in blue light from 24 specially fitted LED lamps from 9:30pm on Thursday 5 July.

• Mercury probe unveiled at the Science Museum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/mercury-probe-unveiled-at-the-science-museum

  The latest mission to the planet Mercury – or rather, a near-exact replica of the probe that will be sent there later this year - touched down at London’s Science Museum this week. And two Leicester space scientists were there to welcome it.

• Richard III rediscovered in unique Yornight event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/richard-iii-rediscovered-in-unique-yornight-event

  A panel event featuring experts directly involved with the discovery of Richard III in Leicester will take place today between 7:00pm - 8:30pm at Yornight, Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum.

• BLOG: what’s the wider story behind Leicester’s migration history?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/migration

  Fifty years ago Leicester welcomed up to 28,000 South Asian UK passport holders from Uganda.