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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.
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Public lecture to mark the 350th anniversary of John Miltons epic Paradise Lost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/public-lecture-to-mark-the-350th-anniversary-of-john-milton2019s-epic-paradise-lost
An upcoming public lecture will mark and celebrate the 350th anniversary of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. Delivered by Professor Karen Edwards (Exeter) on 20 October from 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm in the Library of Birmingham, the lecture is entitled ‘Slow Love in Paradise Lost‘.
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Heritage panels telling history of Leicester to be installed around city
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/heritage-panels-telling-history-of-leicester-to-be-installed-around-city
Colin Hyde at the East Midlands Oral History Archive has written the text for forty heritage panels that are being installed around Leicester.
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About RCMG
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/about
We understand museums, galleries and heritage as part of – and active in shaping - the contemporary world.
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Dismemberment in Victorian London: The Thames Torso Murders. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/31/thames-torso-murders/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 31, 2016 Battersea, London. Source: The A to Z of Victorian London. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent, 1987.
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Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/15/reconsidering-southern-african-studies-from-the-indian-ocean/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 15, 2014 “Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean.” This challenge underpinned two wonderful days of discussion at the University of the Western Cape last week.
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‘Conceptual Experiments’ in Carcerality and Colonialism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/01/16/conceptual-experiments-in-carcerality-and-colonialism/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on January 16, 2017 Preamble : In December, the Carceral Archipelago team – including Clare Anderson, Kellie Moss, Katie Roscoe, Carrie Crockett, Lorainne Paterson, Anna McKay, and Adam Barker – attended the Carceral Geographies...
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James Arthur (Jim) Mackley
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/jim-mackley
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr Jim Mackley. Jim joined the Department of Genetics as a technician in 1964, and was then Chief Technician in the Department of Biochemistry from 1981 until his retirement.
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University of Leicester picks up two awards in VisitEnglands Awards for Excellence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-of-leicester-picks-up-two-awards-in-visitengland2019s-awards-for-excellence
The University of Leicester competed in national awards at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2016 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool where Attenborough Arts Centre and King Richard III Partnership won awards amongst the country’s elite tourism offers.
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New understanding of ‘sociable’ slug behaviour calls for better pesticide targeting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/slugs
Experts from the University of Leicester have been hot on the slime trail of the grey field slug population thanks to innovative technology that can tag and track the behaviour of the invertebrates.