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• A giant black hole in the Milky Way

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/

  Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.

• Scientists aim to develop new method to reduce carbon footprint caused by CT imaging

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/ct-imaging

  Scientists from the University of Leicester are among those aiming to develop a new method to reduce carbon footprint caused by CT imaging

• Discovery of new 430 million-year-old fossils challenges our understanding of ancient molluscs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/punk-emo

  Study involving University of Leicester scientist examines ‘exceptionally preserved’ soft tissues in fossils

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  Dr Eric Guiry is Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study, which focused on two locations close to Yuquot, Canada, and compared findings to sites in the USA, Russia and Japan.

• £5 million grant for health science PhD students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-wellcome-grant

  The University of Leicester has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £5 million. The grant will enable the University to support 40 genomic epidemiology and public health genomics PhD students beginning in the 2020/21 academic year.

• Diversity data

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/edi/data

  Our strategic aim is to recognise and value diversity, ensure equity of opportunity, and enable all staff and students to flourish. Find out about our commitment to equity with our gender pay gap data and more.

• American Federation of Labor records now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/american-federation-of-labor-records-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 Available to researchers from the Library of Congress Website .

• School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 12

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/page/12/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• THESEUS

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/theseus

  The “Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor” (THESEUS) mission concept is an European Space Agency candidate in Phase A study as part of the ESA Medium class call M7.

• Bestselling author Louise Doughty awarded Honorary Degree

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/louise-doughty

  The bestselling Leicestershire-born author, playwright and journalist, Louise Doughty, has today (Wednesday 19 January) been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester.