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• Orton memoir to have Leicester launch at literary festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/orton-memoir-to-have-leicester-launch-at-literary-festival

  Our University is to host the Leicester launch of a new memoir by Leonie Orton, the sister of playwright Joe Orton whose archive is housed at the University.

• Nobel peace prize nominee held captive by IS gives public lecture - photo gallery added

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/nobel-peace-prize-nominee-held-captive-by-is-to-give-public-lecture

  Nobel Peace Prize nominee and UN Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who was held captive by Islamic State members and whose six brothers were murdered by them, spoke out at the University of Leicester on The Struggle of Yazidis Against IS.

• Leicester celebrates opening access to higher education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-celebrates-opening-access-to-higher-education

  Our University is celebrating its links with local colleges from across the Midlands and beyond. The Local to Leicester partnership brings together colleges associated with our University both locally and in the West Midlands.

• Plan a space mission from concept to launch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/plan-a-space-mission-from-concept-to-launch

  Planning a space mission from its initial concept through to its design, assembly and take-off is now a reality thanks to the Department of Physics and Astronomy's Space Exploration Systems MSc, which sets students up for a career in the space industry by teaching...

• Research shows human impact forms striking new pattern in Earths global energy flow

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-shows-human-impact-forms-2018striking-new-pattern2019-in-earth2019s-global-energy-flow

  The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and consume resources has formed a ‘striking new pattern’ in the planet’s global energy flow, according to research led by Professors Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz from the Department of Geology.

• Medicine and welfare in British Civil Wars to be examined at new exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/medicine-and-welfare-in-british-civil-wars-to-be-examined-at-new-exhibition

  Surgeons who could remove a bladder stone in 50 seconds, military hospitals run with stern hygiene standards and a complex system of war pensions for the maimed, widowed and orphaned.

• Leicester academic curates major art exhibition in Rome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-academic-curates-major-art-exhibition-in-rome

  A University of Leicester academic has curated a major art exhibition currently being shown at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. Professor David Ekserdjian, from the University of Leicester’s Department of History of Art and Film, curated “Correggio e Parmigianino.

• Leicester maths student shows entrepreneurial flair with unique student tuition business

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-maths-student-shows-entrepreneurial-flair-with-unique-student-tuition-business

  A third year maths student at Leicester has demonstrated her entrepreneurial skills by setting up a successful student tuition business.

• New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower

  A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.

• The University of Leicester to take part in ERA 2 Initiative

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/the-university-of-leicester-to-take-part-in-era-2-initiative

  The University of Leicester School of Chemistry and the Materials Centre are to take part in the new Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) initiative, ERA-2.