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New views of Jupiter showcases swirling clouds on giant planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/new-views-of-jupiter-showcases-swirling-clouds-on-giant-planet
Members of NASA’s Juno mission team, some of the world’s leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from across the globe attended a workshop co-organised by Leicester academic entiteld ‘New Views of Jupiter: Pro-Am Collaborations during and beyond the NASA Juno...
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Most male football fans are in favour of more involvement of women in the game research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/most-male-football-fans-are-in-favor-more-involvement-of-women-in-the-game-research-shows
A national survey has shown that most men interested in football in Britain would welcome more women into the sport as fans, coaches, board members and match officials.
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Fay Weldon among speakers at Literary Leicester Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/fay-weldon-among-speakers-at-literary-leicester-festival
The prolific feminist author and playwright Fay Weldon will be one of the highlights of this year’s Literary Leicester festival when she appears on stage to talk about the changing landscape of contemporary women’s writing.
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University buildings renamed after English Premier League Champions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-buildings-renamed-after-english-premier-league-champions
For one day only our University will rename its buildings after the Leicester City Football squad in celebration of their remarkable Premier League success and to show its support on the day of the team’s victory parade.
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Dr Gareth Evans
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/people/gareth-evans
Principal Scientist in Science Division at the Health and Safety Executive Laboratory, Buxton At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Laboratory in Buxton, I am responsible for research programmes into causes and prevention of occupational disease focussing mostly on lung...
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study
An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.
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Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside
University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.
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Nichola Gretton
https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/nichola-gretton
Over the past 22 years Nichola has held several roles in the University, initially as a web designer when the University was first establishing its visual identity in the 1990s.
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An evening with Esua Jane Goldsmith
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/esua-jane-goldsmith
On International Women's Day, former Students’ Union President Esua Jane Goldsmith talked about how her time in Leicester University in the 1970s shaped her personal and political journey, and connections with the social justice movements of today.
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The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3768
Module code: HS3768 By the 1780s, Britain had become the world’s largest slave-trading nation, shipping around 40,000 slaves per year to its colonies in the New World.