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• Primary Sources US Presidents

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/primary-sources-us-presidents/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 State of the Union 2016 Read the full transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union speech on the White House website Politico has a video of the address and main responses.

• Happiness research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/happiness-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National...

• What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles

  But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.

• Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens

  Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission

• Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-this-week

  Despite promises of ‘ultrafast’ broadband services in the latest Budget announcement, Dr Bianca Reisdorf from the Department of Media and Communications and Anne-Marie Oostveen from the University of Oxford reflect on how we have yet to see the results of previous promises of...

• New asteroid catalogue allows glimpse into Solar System’s rock history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/asteroid-catalogue-solar-system-rock-history-1-770

  Researchers at University of Leicester and the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur use Gaia satellite data to collect spectra from our asteroid belt

• MP highlights opportunities for Leicester graduates

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/mp-highlights-opportunities-for-leicester-graduates

  On Friday 27 May, Member of Parliament for South Leicestershire, Alberto Costa, visited our University to meet with President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and tour the campus.

• Researching the history of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/leicester-history-resources/researching-leicester

  EMOHA has provided ways in which you can research the history of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This can also be applied to other counties and areas.

• Kenya and gay rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/kenya-and-gay-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 The Kenyan Penal code currently criminalises same sex relations in sections 162 and 165.  A penalty can be 14 years in prison.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/214/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester