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• Guru Nanak Sikh collection

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/all/guru-nanak-sikh

  The Guru Nanak Sikh Museum collection contains three interviews (two in Punjabi, one in English) which document the lives of members of the Sikh community in Leicester. Get more information about the collection.

• British Planetary Science Conference 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/01/30/british-planetary-science-conference-2020/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 January 2020 Academic staff and students presented a wide range of work at the 2nd British Planetary Science Conference The 2nd British Planetary Science Conference was held from the 13th-15th of January at...

• Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/big-bang

  A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviours originated around 650 million years ago.

• Clearing trip to see the University of Leicester changed Tom’s direction of study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/clearing-tom

  When Tom Walters missed out on his first-choice university place, the next step should have seen him accept his reserve choice – until a visit to the University of Leicester during Clearing changed everything.

• Primary materials

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/resources/materials

  Browse through the list of primary materials the Stanley Burton centre has cultivated; essential to the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

• Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.

• Free online course to tackle ethically unsound research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/free-online-course-to-tackle-ethically-unsound-research

  A free online course offered by our University and aimed at aspiring academics hopes to help tackle issues surrounding ethically unsound research.

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

• Geology researchers participate in Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society events

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/geology-professors-participate-in-leicester-literary-and-philosophical-society-events

  Founded in 1835, The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society predates the University by over a century, yet it was an integral catalyst in the formation of the University of Leicester and much of our histories are entwined.

• Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry, 8 May 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/events/archive/public-lectures/bayeux-tapestry

  Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry was a lecture by Dr Michael Lewis (FSA MCIfA), Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, London, and an acknowledged expert on the Tapestry.