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• School of Museum Studies celebrates 50th anniversary with initiatives to diversify the sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/school-of-museum-studies-celebrates-50th-anniversary-with-initiatives-to-diversify-the-sector

  Our School of Museum Studies is showing its commitment to improving student recruitment diversity in a number of ways including the introduction of scholarships for applicants from underrepresented groups, a new course exploring equality and diversity in the museum sector...

• Expert opinions cover Syria Pokmon Go The GBBO wildfires and religious symbols

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-opinions-cover-syria-pokemon-go-the-gbbo-wildfires-and-religious-symbols

  PhD student Seyda Eruyar from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing her journey to study at Leicester and the opportunities provided by our University.

• Could human beings one day live on Mars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/could-human-beings-one-day-live-on-mars

  The Mars One Mission hopes to create a human settlement on Mars by the year 2025 allowing people to live on the Red Planet, albeit in an enclosed environment.

• Leicester student is one of only eight in the world to win astronomy competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-student-is-one-of-only-eight-in-the-world-to-win-astronomy-competition

  A student from Space Research Centre is one of only eight people in the world – and the only one in the UK – to win a place to visit one the world’s most advanced telescopes, travel to the most arid desert in the world – and sleep where James Bond did! Second...

• Plaque to mark Barwell Christmas Eve meteorite unveiled

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/green-plaque-to-mark-barwell-meteorite-which-landed-in-1965-unveiled

  A green plaque marking the surprise arrival of a large meteorite in the village of Barwell on Christmas Eve in 1965 has been unveiled at the junction of Chapel Street and Dawson's Lane - close to the site of the meteorite fall.

• Leicester Professor among Top 50 Women in Engineering

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-professor-among-2018top-50-women-in-engineering2019

  An inaugural list of the top 50 Women in Engineering, featuring Head of Engineering Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng (pictured) is published in the Daily Telegraph for the first time on 23 June 2016 to coincide with National Women in Engineering Day.

• Respiratory Sciences student complaints procedure

  https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/about/contact/student-complaints

  We welcome feedback on how we are doing and understand that occasionally something can go wrong.

• Leicester Lecture to examine profound impact of current global trends on future health and medical care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-lecture-lecture-to-examine-2018profound2019-impact-of-current-global-trends-on-future-health-and-medical-care

  Our prestigious Frank May Clinical Sciences Lecture series will feature the forthcoming lecture 'How health in the U.K. will change over the next 20 years; the good and the bad' on 23 October.

• 1 million investment in Informatics to enhance Big Data offer to science and business

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/ps1-million-investment-in-informatics-to-enhance-big-data-offer-to-science-and-business

  A £1 million investment into the Department of Informatics at our University will develop capacity to work on Big Data with business and industry.

• Sensing technology study identifies trees affected by deadly larch disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/sensing-technology-study-identifies-trees-affected-by-deadly-larch-disease

  Researchers from our University have used remote sensing technology by Leicestershire-based aerial mapping company Bluesky in order to identify trees affected by a destructive disease.