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• Messages about Black History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/black-history-month/statements

  Hear more about Black History Month at Leicester from our Vice-Chancellor and Students' Liberation Officer.

• Partnership to equip ethnically diverse sports leaders of the future

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/sporting-equals

  Leicester City’s Premier League-winning captain Wes Morgan, now part of the Premier League’s Advisory Board on ethnically diverse communities, was also on hand to meet the students, and to explain an athlete’s role in promoting diversity and inclusion.

• Glimpses of the young David Attenborough in the University Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/09/glimpses-of-the-young-david-attenborough-in-the-university-archives/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2016 It’s well known that David and Richard Attenborough, along with their brother John, spent part of their early lives living on the campus of what was then University College, Leicester.

• Funding programme launched by Childrens cancer charity based at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/funding-programme-launched-by-children2019s-cancer-charity-based-at-leicester

  A national childhood cancer charity based at our University is launching a new funding programme for research into rare and under-funded cancers affecting children – including the UK’s only dedicated fund to support research into the health of cancer survivors.

• Censoring Academics works well for Publishers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/06/18/censoring-academics-works-well-for-publishers/

  Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley , recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the...

• COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/11/05/cop26-funding-boost-for-new-space-mission-to-monitor-carbon/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 November 2021 Leicester researchers will contribute to a new joint British and French space mission dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide – the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

• Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-bianca

  Psychology graduate Bianca Semczuk says choosing Leicester through Clearing “couldn’t have been a better decision”. Bianca, 26, had a first taste of university life in Poland, studying International Relations in Warsaw.

• NASA and European Space Agency visit Leicester for Mars workshop

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-mars-sample-return-workshop

  Planetary scientists from across the globe, including representatives from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA and European Space Agency, visited the University of Leicester last week for a Mars Sample Return workshop.

• The Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction of 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/02/the-great-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-of-2020/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 2 December 2020 A spectacular event is unfolding in the night skies this December, as Jupiter and Saturn appear closer in the sky than at any time in the past four centuries.

• Working together to put research at the top of the agenda in the fight against cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/cancer-hope

  The University of Leicester is working in partnership with local Leicestershire and Rutland charity, Hope Against Cancer, to advance cancer research and deliver clinical excellence for patients.