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• Spotlight on University of Leicester students and community projects for royal visit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-spotlight-students-community-projects-royal-visit

  Will and Kate 2100|Today (Wednesday 28 November), Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the city in tribute to last month's helicopter crash at Leicester City Football Club.

• Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Carter for being awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/09/13/congratulations-to-dr-jennifer-carter-for-being-awarded-a-dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/

  Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Carter for being awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship

• Glorious Debo

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/glorious-debo/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, often referred to as the “last Mitford sister”, has passed away. But Debo, as she was known to friends and family, was an institution in her own right.

• Dawn of the Anthropocene concept

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept

  Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...

• Student wellbeing campaign nominated for second national award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/student-wellbeing-campaign-nominated-for-second-national-award

  Our Sport and Active Life team’s commitment to making a difference has been recognised at a national level with a British University & Colleges Sport (BUCS) award nomination for their Be the Influence campaign.

• Earth observation images reveal extent of ferocious forest fires in Siberia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/siberian-fires

  According to Russia’s forestry agency, this year’s fires have ravaged more than 14m hectares, making it the second-worst fire season since the turn of the century.

• The politics of comparison: writing a global history of punishment

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/02/05/the-politics-of-comparison-writing-a-global-history-of-punishment/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 5, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago project faces enormous challenges in writing the history of punishment as global history.

• Gala premiere for feature film shot on University campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/gala-premiere-for-feature-film-shot-on-university-campus

  A locally produced movie which includes a scene filmed at the University of Leicester received its premiere last Saturday at Phoenix Arts. The Wrong Floor, directed by Marc Hamill from Coalville, is an homage to 1980s straight-to-video action/horror movies.

• Diabetes patch proposal wins award for University of Leicester PhD student

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/young-entrepreneurs-scheme

  Charlotte Fawcett, a PhD student from the University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, led a business proposal that has won an award in the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme.

• Physics & Astronomy: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/leigh_fletcher/page/2/

  The Jupiter Time Capsule Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on August 3, 2016   Given that we don’t yet know whether a planetary core exists within Jupiter, much of our understanding of giant planet formation comes from a...