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5th August 2014 Sol 710
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/08/05/5th-august-2014-sol-710/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2014 We are moving into a new sort of terrain as we enter Hidden Valley. On this HiRISE image and the inset MAHLI image you can see the sand ripples that we are traversing.
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Stars align as Leicester awards honorary degree to NASA’s science head
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/leicester-awards-honorary-degree-nasa-science-head
University of Leicester honours the work of NASA’s effective head of science, Dr Nicola Fox, who revealed that beloved Leicester City mascot Filbert Fox has a special place at the United States’ famous space agency.
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Democracy is in Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.
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Research skills training in May and June
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/05/12/research-skills-training-in-may-and-june/
Research skills training being run in May and June 2025 at the University for Leicester for research students and research staff.
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24th June 2014 Sol 669
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/24/24th-june-2014-sol-669/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 24, 2014 It is sol 669 and this equals 1 martian year since our landing in August 2012. At the moment we are doing a lot of driving – frequently over 100 m per day in this phase of the mission.
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11th September 2014 Sol 746
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/09/11/11th-september-2014-sol-746/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 11, 2014 We have now reached the first foothills in the Mt. Sharp part of the mission. This area is called the Pahrump Hills.
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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/5038/
Africana Historic Postcard Collection. New from the Library of Congress, more than 1,500 digitised photograph postcards from European colonial territories from the 1890s – 1960s. Most before 1930. Most are photos from colonial administrators and European missionaries.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/perform/publications
Browse PERFORM study publications, including media interest for the trial.
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Poverty is sexist
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/poverty-is-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 ONE launched the report Poverty is Sexist a rguing that poverty and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.
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Online harassment: US
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/metoo-and-gender-equality-france-and-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 A recent Pew report on the American population has also found that the genders and different sectors of the population have different conceptions of what constitutes online harassment.