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Holocaust awareness event to pay tribute to liberators of Belsen camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/holocaust-awareness-event-to-pay-tribute-to-liberators-of-belsen
Today is the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, first celebrated on 8 May 1945, which marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Leicester VC to reflect on Century of Change in Lit&Phil lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/vc-litphil
University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has spoken of the ‘tremendous honour’ at being invited to deliver a prestigious public lecture to the body which helped establish the University more than a Century ago.
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Earth Observation research detects methane over Poland’s coal mines
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/methane-mines
Following methane observations from the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, we can now observe regions with enhanced methane concentrations from strong point sources all over the world.
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Ex academia luxus: Or Why do we pay to access academic publications?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/12/15/why-do-we-pay-to-access-academic-publications/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on December 15, 2017 In this week’s blog, School of Business doctoral student Secki Jose (spj15@le.ac.uk) explores why universities are paying more and more to access the knowledge that their academics produce.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/216/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Andrew Dunn: Page 215
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/215/
Academic Librarian.
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.
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Student and alumnus to take on 3100 mile trek across the USA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/student-and-alumnus-to-take-on-3-100-mile-trek-across-the-usa
Two amateur hikers from our University are daring to take on a gruelling walk across the diverse landscape of the United States, documenting the extraordinary environments that they travel through.
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The Ill-Treatment and Torture Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/the-ill-treatment-and-torture-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://www.politicalscience.uncc.edu/cconra16/UNCC/ITT_Data_Collection.