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• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• Fellowship for rising star exploring distant worlds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/fellowship-for-rising-star-exploring-distant-worlds

  A researcher from our University has been awarded a prestigious Winton Exoplanet Fellowship, which will see her conducting exciting new research into exoplanet systems.

• Challenges faced by aspiring female headteachers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/challenges-faced-by-aspiring-female-headteachers

  The University of Leicester’s Doctoral Inaugural lectures series continues on Wednesday 23 May, when two new speakers from the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities will share their research into the topics of education, and social relations.

• Exploring the transient Universe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/exploring-the-transient-universe

  A novel mission - to understand how the Universe began and what it is made of – involves Professor Paul O'Brien from our Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• Midlands universities in cold energy tie-up

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/midlands-universities-in-cold-energy-tie-up

  A prototype refrigerated lorry cooled by liquid nitrogen rather than diesel is set to be the first beneficiary of a £60m energy research collaboration by six Midlands universities - including the University of Leicester.

• ESA provides a business boost for Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/esa-boost-space-park

  Space Park Leicester has been selected as a new centre to offer the successful business incubation programme for start-ups in the UK, run by the European Space Agency (ESA).

• The cotton bobbin: symbolic of a lost heritage?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/cotton-bobbin

  Read the article "The cotton bobbin: symbolic of a lost heritage?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Major donation to enhance life-changing kidney research at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mayer-igan

  Pioneering research by the University of Leicester into chronic kidney disease has received a major boost on World Kidney Day following a generous £1million donation from long-term supporter and kidney health advocate Jimmy Mayer.

• GSC Principal's Award

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/gsc-principals-award

  This scholarship is for international (non-EU) students who have completed a foundation pathway at the Leicester Global Study Centre and are beginning a full-time, campus-based, undergraduate degree at the University of Leicester in September 2021.

• Inspirational student who twice battled sepsis receives First Class degree

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/inspirational-student-who-twice-battled-sepsis-receives-first-class-degree

  One of our recent graduates Kishan Vithlani has twice overcome a potentially life-threatening sepsis infection and gone on to achieve a First Class Computer Science BSc. Kishan was born with a congenital heart condition, and had to have surgery twice as a child.