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UK scientists generate electricity from rare element to power future space missions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-americium-electricity-space-power
Experts have generated electricity from a rare chemical element for the first time which may mean future space missions can be powered for up to 400 years.
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Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite
Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.
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Space Park Leicester to showcase world leading research and missions at national conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-showcase-research-missions-national-conference
Leading space experts from Leicester will reveal their involvement in research and missions that are expanding our knowledge and helping us to tackle some of our planet’s biggest challenges at the UK Space Conference 2025 this week.
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Welcome Postdoc Zedong Zheng – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2022/02/21/welcome-zedong-zheng/
The Arch-I-Scan project welcomes Zedong Zheng as new Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mathematics).
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Physics with Astrophysics MPhys
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-astrophysics-mphys/2026
This four-year degree expands on the Physics with Astrophysics BSc to prepare you for high-level entry into industry. It’s also a solid base for pursuing PhD research.
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Physics with Space Science MPhys
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-space-science-mphys/2026
This four-year degree expands on the Physics with Space Science BSc to prepare you for high-level entry into industry. It’s also a solid base for pursuing PhD research.
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Year in industry with Deutsche Bank sets student Cybill Smith up for a career at Barclays
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/year-in-industry-with-deutsche-bank-sets-student-cybill-smith-up-for-a-career-at-barclays
One of this week’s graduating students has expressed how pausing academic study, to spend a year working for Deutsche Bank, was an invaluable experience in terms of developing her professional skills and preparing her for the next step in her career.
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Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues
Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.
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Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library
Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.
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University of Leicester professor appointed chair for REF 2029 sub-panel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ref-panel-chair-leicester-seidu
Professor Samuel Seidu from the University of Leicester has been selected to chair an expert panel of the Research Excellence Framework 2029 (REF).