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• Ground control arrives at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/ground-control-arrives-at-leicester

  Scientists at our University are a step closer to controlling their own satellite missions now that a new satellite ground station dish has been installed on campus.

• Leicester is founding signatory for new pledge to support technicians

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-is-founding-signatory-for-new-pledge-to-support-technicians

  Today, more than 35 universities and research institutions from across the UK – including the University of Leicester - have backed a pledge to support their technicians.

• Astrophysicist to visit Kazakhstan to watch astronaut Tim Peake make British space exploration history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/astrophysicist-prepares-to-visit-kazakhstan-to-watch-astronaut-tim-peake-make-british-space-exploration-history

  Martin Barstow, University Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Head of the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science from the Department of Physics and Astronomy will have a front row seat when British astronaut Tim Peake makes history by...

• Winners of short story competition announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/short-story-competition-winners-receive-their-prizes

  The winners of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning Short Story Competition have been announced.

• Canadian Rugby World Cup visit coincides with World War One study into autograph books by servicemen

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/canadian-rugby-world-cup-visit-coincides-with-world-war-one-study-into-2018autograph-books2019-by-servicemen

  As the Canadian rugby team takes on Romania in Leicester today, researchers have been examining new evidence about a very different group of Canadian men who spent time in Leicester exactly 100 years ago.

• Spirit of the 1960s and 70s kept alive in new book about Neil Young

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-1960s-and-70s-kept-alive-in-new-book-about-neil-young

  A new book on the musical travels of Neil Young, one of the most significant recording and performing artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, argues that the singer-songwriter is one of only a few music industry figures to still engage in social activism.

• Upcoming conference to celebrate 30 year anniversary of DNA fingerprinting discovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/upcoming-conference-to-celebrate-30-year-anniversary-of-dna-fingerprinting-discovery

  In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the landmark discovery and application of DNA fingerprinting by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the University is hosting a conference to share new innovations in forensic science on Wednesday 15 April.

• Seven year itch Henry VIIIs secret love

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/seven-year-itch-henry-viiis-secret-love

  The Tudor monarch King Henry VIII is perhaps best known for his prodigious appetite for marriage, famously taking six wives during his lifetime – and now former University lecturer David Baldwin has published a book suggesting that he was close to...

• Researcher explores the special skills required to be a medieval baker

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/the-great-medieval-bake-off

  With The Great British Bake Off back on our screens and a University graduate taking part, many around campus are talking about the much-loved programme, which is now in its seventh season.

• Our University marks Black History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/our-university-marks-black-history-month-1

  Our University has marked Black History Month 2016 with exhibitions, talks, theatre and film showings.