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• National conference to focus on menopause policy in the workplace

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/national-conference-to-focus-on-menopause-policy-in-the-workplace

  Experts from our University are to showcase menopause policies in the workplace at a national conference. The University of Leicester is the first University in the UK with a workplace menopause policy.

• New insight into frictionless surfaces is slippery slope to energy-efficient technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/superlubricity-friction

  Scientists led by the University of Leicester have made an insight into superlubricity, revealing that friction is reduced further at lower temperatures

• Launch yourself into the space industry with new conversion course for professionals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/space-missions

  Led by University of Leicester and run in partnership with space law practice Alden Legal and Meridian Space Command, the new course covers the entire space mission lifecycle from conception through to operations

• Survey reveals new archaeological findings at threatened ancient harbour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/survey-reveals-new-archaeological-findings-at-threatened-ancient-harbour

  An expedition by a team from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Dreamer’s Bay, RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus between 10 to 22 September 2015 has unearthed a series of ancient artefacts.

• MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 1-2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/07/23/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-1-2/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 23, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.

• Transforming scholarship

  https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/impact/transforming-scholarship

  The Centre for Hate Studies is renowned for undertaking pioneering and transformative research.

• Matter detected falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/21-matter-falling-into-a-black-hole

  A team of astronomers led by our Department of Physics and Astronomy report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the a distant galaxy.

• Academic guidance of Research Degree by published work students

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-9/appendix-1/academic-guidance

  (1)9.25 The School must allocate an academic adviser for every research student.

• Obamas nuclear policy wishlist appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018obama2019s-nuclear-policy-wish-list-appears-neither-politically-viable-nor-diplomatically-wise2019

  Without broad approval at home or abroad Obama’s nuclear policy wish-list appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise in the longer term, according to Dr Andrew Futter and PhD student James Johnson from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• Asteroid fragments narrow down timeframe for giant planets’ current orbits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/giant-planet-instability

  University of Leicester-led study suggests that the orbital instability of the giant planets happened between 60-100 million years after the beginning of the Solar System, with evidence found in meteorites linked to asteroid believed to be remains of a destroyed planetesimal