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• EXILE installation marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/fifty-years-since-the-partial-decriminalisation-of-homosexuality-to-coincide-with-bold-new-installation-at-the-national-trust2019s-kingston-lacy-in-dorset

  A bold new installation at the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy in Dorset and involving researchers from our School of Museum Studies marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.

• President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Boyle, to leave the University of Leicester to become Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/05-vc-announcement

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle CBE President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle CBE|Professor Paul Boyle CBE joined the University in October 2014 and is recognised for delivering many new achievements for the University.

• Leicester scientists describe astronomical phenomenon never witnessed before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-scientists-describe-2018astronomical-phenomenon-never-witnessed-before2019

  Researchers from our University have contributed to a simultaneous global announcement -  in London, Washington DC, and Munich  -  of the discovery and results from the joint detection of gravitational waves and light from the collision of a pair of mutually...

• University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• TV stardom for the worst singer on campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/tv-stardom-for-the-worst-singer-on-campus

  There are many talented singers at the University of Leicester, from LU Voices to the Chamber Choir to the Band and Gig Society – but Mike Simpson isn’t one of them.

• A small but highly significant step for Britain in space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/a-small-but-highly-significant-step-for-britain-in-space

  Professor Ken Pounds (pictured),  Emeritus Professor of Space Physics and a local pioneer of Space Research, has hailed the significance of Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut in orbit, but warned there is so far no funding beyond his present mission on...

• China delegation hosted by University of Leicester strengthens education links

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/chongqing-delegation

  Visit strengthens links between Chongqing Medical University (CQMU) and Leicester, who have collaborated on medical education provision since 2019

• Leicester Students Union gets ready to refresh

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-students2019-union-is-ready-to-2018refresh2019

  This Friday 19 January marks the start of the Students’ Union’s Refreshers 2018 - kicking off Spring Term with sweet treats, a Refreshers fair and even an afternoon of trampolining.

• Dancing through life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/dancing-through-life

  A former professional dancer, Dr Heidi Ashton from the University’s School of Management has revealed some of the realities of working as a dancer in a new video interview.

• Wounds to the lower jaw and right cheek (injuries 7-8)

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/injuries/skull-7-8

  There were wounds to the jaw and right cheek which were possibly symbolic ‘punishment blows’ delivered to the King’s body after death.