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  • Research funding and partners

    https://le.ac.uk/brexit/research

    The EU has been an important source of funding for our research at the University of Leicester. We have seen in the past year the largest percentage increase in EU grant funding of any UK institution: up 72% to £6.7 million.

  • New study calls for action on air pollution in Northern India

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/north-india-air-pollution

    New research led by the University of Leicester calls for urgent action on open field burning to reduce the intensity of post-monsoon air pollution in Northern India.

  • Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet

    The new Home Planet gallery features an interactive projection floor with ice, water, and sea creatures that respond to visitor movements, while an art installation by local artist Michelle Reader based on the ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ but made entirely from recycled...

  • Free comedy theatre show on Victorian mental health treatments

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-time-travel-treatment

    Audiences are being invited to take a step back into the Victorian Era on Thursday 7 November for a free event at the University of Leicester taking a comical look at the historical diagnosis and treatments for mental health issues.

  • Researchers make sand that flows uphill

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/sand-microrollers

    Paper published in 'Nature Communications' details how applying magnetic forces to individual 'microroller' particles spurs collective motion—with counterintuitive results

  • Santander scholar on path to career in STEM

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/stemships

    An engineer at the University of Leicester has become one of the first beneficiaries of a scheme designed to enhance opportunities for women in STEM.

  • Why do a MOOC in Museum Studies?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/12/10/why-do-a-mooc-in-museum-studies/

    Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on December 10, 2015 Over 11,000 people signed up for the first run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , and they were overwhelmingly positive about their experience.

  • UK team to lead European mission to study new planets

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/uk-team-to-lead-european-mission-to-study-new-planets

    The ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) mission was selected as the next European Space Agency (ESA) science mission, putting UK leadership at the heart of research into planets that lie outside our solar system -- exoplanets.

  • The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

  • Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nuclear-power-plant-ukraine

    As Ukraine conflict continues, new book by University of Leicester researcher argues that nuclear facilities are more likely to be targeted, and damage to power plants risks radiological contamination of the environment over vast areas.

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