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• University of Leicester grows partnership with An Indian Summer festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/university-leicester-partnership-indian-summer-festival

  The fifteenth edition of one of the UK’s longest-running South Asian arts festivals will be supported by the University of Leicester.

• Leicester receives world-class bioscience investment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/leicester-receives-world-class-bioscience-investment

  Our University has been awarded over £1.5million in order to advance knowledge and understanding in three key areas that impact on health.

• Observing Jupiter’s aurora from the top of a Volcano

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/01/observing-jupiters-aurora-from-the-top-of-a-volcano/

  Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 1, 2016 As part of the ground based support for the Juno mission, I visited the Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, in February through to the beginning of March this year.

• The Middle Draa Project

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/diverse-heritage/the-middle-draa-project

  Project page for the University of Leicester's Middle Draa archaeological research project

• The Boy Who Lived Students put the science of Harry Potters universe to the test

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students-put-the-science-of-harry-potter2019s-universe-to-the-test

  In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele-Gro to repair broken bones.

• What’s happening in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere down at the equator?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/08/whats-happening-in-jupiters-upper-atomosphere-down-at-the-equator/

  Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 8, 2016 The northern and southern lights of Jupiter are a vibrant and dynamic phenomena, generated by a complex array of mechanisms that create the most powerful aurora in the solar system .

• Talking statues

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/talking-statues

  Talking Statues was an innovative and novel project that used playwrights, actors and mobile technology to put words into the mouths of public statues.

• Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 12

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/12/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/people

  Meet the people who work, study and research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester.

• David Watkin

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/david-watkin

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Watkin, who was instrumental in the founding of Leicester Medical School. The following obituary, by David's daughter Sally Watkin, originally appeared in the BMJ.