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• Tribute to architect behind iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/tribute-to-architect-behind-iconic-engineering-building

  The architect James Gowan, who co-designed the University of Leicester’s Engineering Building, has died aged 92. He formed a partnership with James Stirling in the 1950s the results of which included our Engineering Building, completed in 1963.

• Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/zooniverse

  Astronomers have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for planets beyond our Solar System.

• Space telescope researcher sets her sights on Parliament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/space-telescope-researcher-sets-her-sights-on-parliament

  MPs will get an insight into the future of space-based telescopes when a Leicester scientist presents her work into x-ray optics.

• The Arch-I-Scan Project: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/page/2/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Physics & Astronomy: Page 13

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/leigh_fletcher/page/13/

  EO Detective in Lockdown Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 April 2021 Catherine Fitzsimons, our NCEO Outreach Officer, describes the legacy of an outreach project from NCEO at the University of Leicester.

• The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...

• 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.

• Student feedback

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/quality/feedback

  Feedback to students The quality of feedback provided to students about their academic performance is a fundamental element of the University of Leicester's approach to learning and teaching.

• Excavation of Roman Cemetery nominated for national archaeology award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/excavation-of-roman-cemetery-nominated-for-national-archaeology-award

  For the second year running a project led by Leicester archaeologists has been nominated in the Current Archaeology Awards, this year in the category ‘Rescue Project of the Year’.

• Five reasons why we need to look at childbirth and the media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/five-reasons-why-we-need-to-look-at-childbirth-and-the-media

  An academic from our University has discussed ways in which the media shapes society’s perceptions, anxieties and emotions arising out of birth.