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• Chicxulub crater study suggests asteroid impacts could create habitats for life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/chicxulub-crater-study-suggests-asteroid-impacts-could-create-habitats

  Scientists studying a 65-million-year old crater in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by an asteroid impact, claim it could have provided a habitat for early life to take hold on earth.

• White Dwarfs

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics/white-dwarfs

  White dwarfs are the end products of the life cycles of more than 90% of all stars. This makes them important laboratories for studying stellar evolution and the behaviour of matter at extremes of temperature and density.

• Minister meets life science and space businesses

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/18-minister-visit

  Minister meets life science and space businesses Cabinet Minister Brandon Lewis meets students and staff from the University 600|Cabinet Minister Brandon Lewis, was in Leicester today (Thursday 18 October) visiting the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre,...

• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• Hilary Burgess

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/hilary-burgess

  Professor Hilary Burgess came to Leicester in 2010 from a position at the Open University, joining her husband Robert Burgess, who had been Vice-Chancellor since 1999.

• Prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington to take part in Literary Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prolific-shakespearean-actor-and-recent-king-lear-michael-pennington-to-take-part-in-literary-leicester

  Eminent stage actor, writer and director Michael Pennington will be delivering a talk and Q&A at our Literary Leicester festival on 16 November. Renowned for his performance as King Lear in New York 2014, Michael reprised the role for a major UK tour in 2016.

• Leicester welcomes over 1500 school students on campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-welcomes-over-1-500-school-students-on-campus

  Over 1,500 students arrived on campus to experience a taste of university life as part of the Schools’ Taster Conference which took place on Thursday 29 June.

• Treatment which could prevent wound scarring to be presented

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/treatment-which-could-prevent-wound-scarring-to-be-presented

  Research at our University has revealed a potential treatment to prevent wound scarring that will soon be entering clinical trials.

• Salt mine in Yorkshire could help to shed light on Martian life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/salt-mine-in-yorkshire-could-help-to-shed-light-on-martian-life

  A PhD student is helping to shed light on life on Mars by exploring similar environments on Earth - including an underground salt mine in North Yorkshire.

• Leicester Professor wins East Midlands Womens Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-professor-wins-east-midland2019s-women2019s-award

  Professor Turi King (pictured) has been awarded the East Midlands Women’s Awards for Outstanding Woman in Stem at a prestigious ceremony on 20 October 2017.