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• Conversations with… Dr Simon Vaughan

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/08/conversations-with-dr-simon-vaughan/

  Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 October 2020 Dr Simon Vaughan is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, as well as being one of the two Academic Directors of the School, written by Emily Baldwin.

• Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-how-penrose-genzel-and-ghez-helped-put-black-holes-at-the-centre-of-modern-astrophysics/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide.

• Space instrument gets good vibrations in major step for solar wind mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/smile

  A cutting-edge x-ray telescope has shaken off a University of Leicester test that put it through the rigours of being launched into space.

• Leicester internationally recognised for supporting student sport

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-internationally-recognised-for-supporting-student-sport

  Innovation and demonstration of best practice has helped Leicester win a European Award for supporting student sport. The University’s Leicester Academy picked up the top prize at the European Network of Academic Sports Services event.

• Dr Rachel Winter has won the Royal College of Psychiatrists Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the Year Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rachel-winter

  Dr Rachel Winter, honorary consultant in old age psychiatry at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and associate professor in empathic healthcare and medical education at University of Leicester, has won the Royal College of Psychiatrists Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the...

• Surnames and the Y chromosome

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome

  Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King  In Britain, we have heritable surnames.

• Their Past Your Future 2

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/their-past-your-future-2

  TPYF2 aimed to encourage the sector to use their collections to increase young people’s knowledge and understanding of the impact of war.

• The stirrings of controversy

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/reinterring/controversy

  From the project’s inception, it was the stated intention of the partnership involved in the search for the king’s remains that, if successful, Richard III would be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral.

• Film shows ‘breathtaking’ emissions reductions during lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/07-air-quality-plots

  r7tYw_-00PM 7_3sFlNW5s8 AOmWrlpnzyE|Timelapse satellite imagery from the University of Leicester reveals startling reductions in air pollution.

• Leicester researchers aim to tackle worldwide type 2 diabetes epidemic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/24-leicester-researchers-aim-to-tackle-worldwide-type-2-diabetes-epidemic

  A team from the Leicester Diabetes Centre has just returned after travelling to Mozambique with colleagues from Geneva and Malawi to discuss potentially rolling out an education programme in those two countries.