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• Student Sophie on a mission to promote heart health after the loss of her dad

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/defib

  A student who found her father lying dead on the driveway is behind a raft of measures to raise awareness of heart-related deaths at her university.

• Fay Weldon among speakers at Literary Leicester Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/fay-weldon-among-speakers-at-literary-leicester-festival

  The prolific feminist author and playwright Fay Weldon will be one of the highlights of this year’s Literary Leicester festival when she appears on stage to talk about the changing landscape of contemporary women’s writing.

• Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space

  A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.

• Welcome to the jungle: Leicester student recalls life-changing British Army deployment to Belize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/belize

  Army reservist and Leicester student Lieutenant Rob Blackman recalls his British Army deployment to Belize.

• Leicester City Science Stars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-city-science-stars

  Ever wondered what would happen when a group of football professionals, an astronaut in training and 30 children are in one room? Last week more than 30 primary school children explored what it would take to become an astronaut and learned how to build their own rockets...

• Royal role for Leicester graduate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/royal-role-for-leicester-graduate

  A University of Leicester graduate has received the distinction of a royal role. Riaz Ravat BEM has been confirmed as one of eight new Deputy Lieutenants for the county of Leicestershire commissioned under oath, in honour of their service to the local community.

• Dating the Social Death of the Eighteenth Century Criminal. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/23/dating-the-social-death-of-the-eighteenth-century-criminal-by-rachel-bennett/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 23, 2015 In April 2015 I presented a paper at a conference held at the University of Leicester entitled ‘When is Death?’ The conference was organised by members of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the...

• Florence Rich and Granville School for Girls

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/05/22/florence-rich-and-granville-school-for-girls/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 22, 2018 11 Granville Road, Leicester, formerly Granville School for Girls On 14 November 1917 The Leicester Daily Post , edited by W. G.

• Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton

  Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans.

• University of Leicester celebrates Knowledge Exchange Framework results

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/kef-2023

  Latest KEF results show that the University of Leicester’s strong performance in the KEF last year has further improved moving up in both Research Partnerships and Public and Community Engagement.