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Can Santa Claus see your house from his sleigh?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/20-christmas-lights
Millions of children across the world will be looking up at the night sky on Christmas Eve to get a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer – but what if he could see your house from the sky? Students at the University of Leicester may have found the answer, after calculating...
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Bepi and Mio
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/about/bepi-mio
There are two components making up the BepiColombo mission: ESA’s Bepi spacecraft, which will orbit closer to Mercury and will investigate the planetary surface, exosphere and magnetosphere, and JAXA’s Mio spacecraft, which will orbit at higher altitudes within Mercury’s...
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Leicester in new study on social identity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-in-new-study-on-social-identity
The University has been selected as the only UK university to be involved in a Europe-wide project studying social identity.
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National programme to detect climate tipping points harnesses Leicester expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/detect-tipping-points-climate-research
University of Leicester’s Professor Valerio Lucarini will lead a work package for Advancing Tipping Point Early Warning (AdvanTip) project
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School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 11
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/page/11/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part One
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/11/reflections-on-my-professional-fellowship-part-one/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on October 11, 2024 My name is Sarah Wood and I work as the Assistant Archivist for the University of Leicester.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Successful flight for aircraft carrying Leicesters pioneering NO2 scanner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/successful-flight-for-aircraft-carrying-leicester2019s-pioneering-no2-scanner
Our University has successfully carried out the flight of an aircraft equipped with pioneering space technology to measure air pollution, in particular nitrogen dioxide (NO2), in the environment.
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Radiographer lecturer receives MBE at Windsor Castle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/claire-robinson-mbe
Radiography senior lecturer Dr Claire Robinson beams with pride having received an MBE for services to forensic investigation.
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Burgeoning businesses born from VentureVersity programme are put to the test
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/ventureversity-event
The University of Leicester recently hosted a pivotal event that united academics and the business community to drive the commercialisation of groundbreaking ideas.