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Explosive moment in the media
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/explosive-moment-in-the-media
University geologist Dr David Hawthorn, who set up equipment near the former city council HQ to record the effects of the controlled demolition of the site, has published his results. Dr David Hawthorn is a seismologist in our Department of Geology.
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70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/70th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations-next-year/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A new online exhibition is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.
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Schrödinger’s Cat and the Hidden Feelings Box: PSHE and RSHE Education in a Digital World
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2025/07/14/schrodingers-cat-and-the-hidden-feelings-box-pshe-and-rshe-education-in-a-digital-world/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on July 14, 2025 Michelle O’Reilly, Diane Levine, Neil Sinclair, and Sarah Adams c What if being kind online is harder not because children don’t care — but because they can’t see inside...
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The spacecraft that came before Juno
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/12/the-spacecraft-that-came-before-juno/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 12, 2016 The Juno spacecraft is not the first to visit Jupiter – this honour goes to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft back in December of 1973.
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Thank You For The Music: Student scholars celebrate community support
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/music-scholars-legacy-guild
Speaking at the event, University President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, described the Guild as “valued members of the University family”.
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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New video remembers the beginnings of the University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/05-centenary-video
Our centenary video: So that they may have life G2wgWaQVTEQ Centenary video image still from video|In the film, we hear the words of local doctor, Dr Astley Clarke, as he responds to an editorial in the Leicester Daily Post newspaper.
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Eighth annual literary festival promises to explore the magic of Wonderland the mystery of Jack the Ripper and the genius of James Joyce
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/eighth-annual-literary-festival-promises-to-explore-the-magic-of-wonderland-the-mystery-of-jack-the-ripper-and-the-genius-of-james-joyce
A vibrant celebration of the written and spoken word is set to visit the city once again as this year's completely free Literary Leicester festival prepares to welcome a distinguished selection of authors, poets and performers.
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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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JWST at the National Space Centre
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/10/29/jwst-at-the-national-space-centre/
pace scientists from the University of Leicester demonstrated the cutting-edge science behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the National Space Centre this October half term.