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• Bioscience departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/bioscience-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality

  Our University has been further recognised for our commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education with the announcement that two of our biosciences departments have received Athena SWAN awards.

• Centenary Square dedication

  https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/square-dedication

  Centenary Square is public space for staff, students and visitors in the heart of our campus. It is a magnificent multi-use outdoor venue in the centre of the campus.

• Leicester alumnus appointed High Sheriff of East Sussex

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-alumnus-appointed-high-sheriff-of-east-sussex

  Michael Foster, who is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of East Sussex, was this year appointed the County’s High Sheriff.

• Glittering literati at Literary Leicester Festival 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/glittering-literati-at-literary-leicester-festival-2016

  The city's diverse celebration of the written and spoken word is returning next month with a prestigious line-up of speakers and contributors who have shaped the landscape of modern literature.

• cl13

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/corinne_lambert/

  The Dryad Collection – basket weaving Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection, I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the...

• 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.

• World Digital Preservation Day 2022 blog

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/19/world-digital-preservation-day-2022/

  Blog post describing the work done at the University of Leicester to increase ability and capacity for permanent preservation of born-digital material (websites, Sharepoint sites, email and word and pdf documents).

• University involved in new Enterprise Zone

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-involved-in-new-enterprise-zone

  A new ground-breaking research and development-led Enterprise Zone (EZ), which involves the University of Leicester, was announced in the budget on 16th March.

• Loot

  https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/plays/loot

  Learn more about the ways in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Loot by Joe Orton, for the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project.

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.