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• Athena Swan in the College

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/athena-swan

  In April 2020, the College of Life Sciences were awarded a college-wide Silver Athena SWAN award, for commitment to promoting gender equality in the College.

• Network participants

  https://le.ac.uk/dons-yardies-posses/network-participants

  Get more information on our network participants. Including those from within the University of Leicester and those who come from outside of the institution.

• Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.  It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.

• Beagle 2 lander found on Mars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/beagle-2-lander-found-on-mars

  The UK-led Beagle 2 was due to land on Mars on 25 December 2003. The spacecraft was ejected from Mars Express on 19 December 2003. Nothing had been heard from Beagle 2 and the mission was presumed lost. Until now.

• New report part-funded by University of Leicester finds half of space workforce joins by age 25

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/space-census-skills

  The first report on how and why people join the UK space sector, based on a census of the space sector funded by the University of Leicester, has been published by the Space Skills Alliance.

• Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalised with COVID are almost three times more likely to die, new study shows.

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/covid-children

  Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others.

• Researchers make spectacular discovery of how learning takes place and memories are formed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/researchers-make-spectacular-discovery-of-how-learning-takes-place-and-memories-are-formed

  Brain scientists in the UK and US have collaborated to make ‘a spectacular discovery’ - for the first time in human studies - of how memories are formed and new learning takes place.

• 5th August 2017 Sol 1777 – 5 years on Mars

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/08/05/5th-august-2017-sol-1777-5-years-on-mars/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2017 The 5th August marks  5 Earth years since the successful landing of Mars Science Laboratory.  During the landing I was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

• Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/

  Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.

• Space researcher shares her inspiring story and advice to young women and girls hoping to work in STEM

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/hannah-sargeant-iwd

  Dr Hannah Sargeant from the University of Leicester School of Physics and Astronomy shares her journey to becoming a planetary scientist.