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  • Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys to be guest speaker at unique fundraising event

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/professor-sir-alec-jeffreys-to-be-guest-speaker-at-unique-fundraising-event

    Students and academics are invited to attend the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre in London on Monday 16 May 2016 and spend an evening with the inventor of forensic DNA fingerprinting and emeritus professor, Sir Alec Jeffreys. The event, starting at 7.

  • Resources

    https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics/genetics-schools-colleges/resources

    Genomics and the Human Genome Project (HGP) Genome - the Secret of How Life Works Interactive content for students, teachers and parents from Pfizer.

  • South Asian collections

    https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/south-asian

    Browse collections of oral histories that feature the memories of South Asians who have settled in Leicestershire. It includes East African Asians, particularly those who came from Uganda during the 1970s and onwards.

  • The hunt for the Christmas meteorite

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite

    An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

  • Alex Keller

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/alex-keller

    The University has learned, with regret, of the death of Professor Alex Keller who taught history of science and technology at Leicester 1963-1997.

  • Leicester Space at the British Science Festival

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/09/13/leicester-space-at-the-british-science-festival/

    British Science Festival-goers will be treated to some incredible events courtesy of experts from the University of Leicester.

  • New study to explore how personalised drug doses could improve quality of life for people with secondary breast cancer

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/breast-cancer-drug-doses-leicester

    A new study by a Leicester researcher will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life

  • New launch date for satellite carrying Leicester-built telescope studying Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/launch-satellite-telescope-earth-magnetic-shield

    Scientists at Space Park Leicester led development of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), due to launch from French Guiana on Tuesday 19 May

  • New distance learning MA in English Language and Linguistics

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/10/28/new-distance-learning-ma-in-english-language-and-linguistics/

    Posted by in School of English Blog on October 28, 2013 Our new MA in English Language and Linguistics by Distance Learning got underway about a month ago.

  • Holly Furneaux

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/hf35/

    Reader in Victorian Literature.

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