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Expedition 325: Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2010-11/great-barrier-reef
January – March 2010 The GBREC expedition is designed to establish the course and effects of the last glaciation in reef settings that developed in tectonically inactive areas located far from glaciated regions.
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The sky’s the limit for students thanks to University partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/sky-limit-students-partnership-leicestershire-aero-club
First students have undergone flight training as part of a new Flight Test Course from School of Engineering , who have established a partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club to support training
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Italian Upper-intermediate (Level 4)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/italian/italian-level-4
Upper-intermediate Italian Course at Leicester University
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German Post-advanced (Level 6)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/german/level-6
Post-advanced German Course at Leicester University
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Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology/people
Professor Marilyn Palmer Marilyn Palmer read History at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and then worked in teacher training at Loughborough College of Education before joining the History Department of the University of Loughborough and becoming its Head in 1983.
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Refugee Week: schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/19-refugee-week-primary-school-messages-of-hope
Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece. They will also create a storybook which will contain blank cards for children in the refugee camp to fill and send back - starting a dialogue between the children.
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Hamish Simpson
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/hamish-simpson
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Hamish Simpson, former Professor of Paediatrics, who passed away on 4 March 2025, aged 91. Hamish Simpson was born on 23 December 1933 in Glasgow.
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Imperial War Museum North (IWMN)
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/imperial-war-museum-north
The project was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum North as part of a process of exploring the future re-development of the Museum.
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Leicester brings researchers and policymakers together in Westminster
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/institute-policy-launch
The worlds of policymaking and research converged at the official launch of the University of Leicester’s Institute for Policy, held in Westminster last night.