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• Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant

  Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme

• To celebrate Year of the Rooster University research explores intriguing tales of chickens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/to-celebrate-year-of-the-rooster-university-research-explores-intriguing-tales-of-chickens

  To celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rooster, a research team involving our University has shed light on the fascinating role chickens have played in the development of our planet - by taking audiences on the Chicken Trail.

• Big stars and a big moon to shine in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/big-stars-and-a-big-moon-to-shine-in-leicester

  Museum of the Moon K3aRRq95Axw 8400|For an out-of-this-world experience in Leicester – head over to the spectacular array of events being held as part of British Science Week in March.

• Recreation of Iron Age Glenfield cauldron nominated as Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/glenfield-cauldron-current-archaeology-award

  The collaborative investigation and recreation of an Iron Age cauldron found in Glenfield has been shortlisted as Current Archaeology ‘Research Project of the Year’ 2026.

• Past events

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/events/past-events

  Browse past events which have taken place in the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

• 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

• Richard III landmarks ranked in Smithsonians 25 Great New Places to See list

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/richard-iii-landmarks-ranked-in-smithsonians-25-great-new-places-to-see-list

  Richard III landmarks around Leicester, including Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, the King Richard III Visitor Centre and Leicester Cathedral, have been ranked twelfth place in the Smithsonian's 'The 21st Century Life List: 25 Great New Places to See'.

• The Convict Hulks of Bermuda

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/26/the-convict-hulks-of-bermuda/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014 I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population.

• Discovery of Hadrosaur footprint over 30 years ago was first dinosaur fossil finding in Scotland

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/student-discovery-of-2018hadrosaur2019-footprint-over-30-years-ago-was-first-dinosaur-fossil-finding-in-scotland

  Recent discoveries in Patagonia and other parts of South America as part of a four-year study has revealed a ‘mass grave’ littered with charred bone fragments of the ‘duck-billed’ Hadrosaur which has helped describe how changing environmental conditions led to the extinction...

• The ‘aura’ of the original?

  https://le.ac.uk/research/images-of-research/chiara-marabelli

  Chiara Marabelli, PhD Student has entered a piece entitled 'The 'aura' of the original?'.