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First JWST Images – What do they Show?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/07/14/first-jwst-images-what-do-they-show/
Professor Martin Barstow wrote in the Conversation to explain what JWST's first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy.
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The happy ending to the story of ambitious project to refurbish iconic Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/the-2018happy-ending2019-to-the-story-of-ambitious-project-to-refurbish-iconic-engineering-building
The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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Wills and the Administration of Estates
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/lw3511
Module code: LW3511 In this module you'll consider the construction and effect of wills, as well as debate other forms of post death succession. This will include intestacy, the law of survivorship and forfeiture.
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Wills and the Administration of Estates
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/lw3511
Module code: LW3511 In this module you'll consider the construction and effect of wills, as well as debate other forms of post death succession. This will include intestacy, the law of survivorship and forfeiture.
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Wills and the Administration of Estates
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/lw3511
Module code: LW3511 In this module you'll consider the construction and effect of wills, as well as debate other forms of post death succession. This will include intestacy, the law of survivorship and forfeiture.
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Thought piece: The problem with Apollo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-problem-with-apollo
Apollo 11 launches Apollo 11 launches| As the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface approaches, Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations, School of History, Politics and International Relations, discusses the problems with Apollo.
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World Digital Preservation Day 2022 blog
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/19/world-digital-preservation-day-2022/
Blog post describing the work done at the University of Leicester to increase ability and capacity for permanent preservation of born-digital material (websites, Sharepoint sites, email and word and pdf documents).
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Thailand government joins forces with University of Leicester to launch UK scholarship for 50 Thai students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/thailand-government-university-leicester-uk-scholarship-thai-students
University of Leicester and Thai government launch scholarships to support Thai students studying in the UK, strengthening international ties.