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• Early-risers may catch “Father Christmas” on his way back to the North Pole via the skies above the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/father-christmas-skies-space-park-leicester

  The International Space Station is due to make a 'high pass' at 06:18 local time and, weather permitting, visible until around 06:23

• Eric Henry Janson Teasdale (1896– 1917)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/20/eric-henry-janson-teasdale-1896-1917/

  21st January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Eric Henry Janson Teasdale, who at the age of just twenty gave his life during the First World War.

• Dr Claire Smith

  https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/claire-smith

  Find out more about Dr Claire Smith, alumna of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. She is Lecturer in Child Health at University College London.

• University of Leicester gives entrepreneurial graduate Anuj the space to expand his start-up

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/anuj-ashar

  An entrepreneur who founded a tech start-up while still a student at the University of Leicester has relocated the award-winning business to his old campus.

• Exhibition showcases fascinating relationship between India and Britain between 17th and 20th centuries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/exhibition-showcases-exhibition-showcases-2018fascinating-relationship2019-between-india-and-britain-between-17th-and-20th-centuries

  An exhibition running at our University traces the history of the British in India from the early 17th century to the turn of the 20th.

• 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.

• Renowned street artist creates ghostimage of famous playwright Joe Orton in library

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/renowned-street-artist-creates-ghost-image-of-famous-playwright-joe-orton-in-library

  A renowned street artist has spray-painted a ‘ghost image’ of playwright Joe Orton in our Library – which he hopes will encourage people to reflect on the legacy of the writer.

• 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.

• Optics

  https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs/optics

  The MIXS optics were designed with inspiration from a lobster’s eye. This is because instead of using lenses, like how our eyes work, it uses mirrors to reflect the light. There are lots of small channels that allow the X-rays to be reflected and focused onto the detector.

• Eddie Izzard event at University of Leicester cancelled

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/eddie-izzard-event-at-university-of-leicester-cancelled

  Eddie Izzard’s talk at the University of Leicester, as part of his Stand Up For Europe campaign, was cancelled following the suspension of EU referendum campaigning today. The suspension of campaigning follows the shocking attack on Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox near Leeds.