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• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

• Fieldwork Skills for Professional Geographers

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy1026

  Module code: GY1026 In this module you will gain basic skills that are critical to conducting fieldwork, including keeping a field notebook, observation skills, collecting, collating and presenting different types of data.

• New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

  X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

• Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA)

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/about/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/edi-networks/women-in-economics-finance-and-accounting

  Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA) is an outreach initiative aiming to encourage and inspire women to consider a career in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA).

• New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins

  A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.

• University of Leicester celebrates School of Education’s 75th anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/education

  University of Leicester’s School of Education has hit a landmark anniversary, celebrating its 75th year.  The School was founded in 1946, welcoming its first group of 19 students, most of whom were ex-military personnel.

• Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/fruit-air-pollution-lung-function

  Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam by Leicester scientists

• New report finds nuclear weapons and related systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-nuclear-report

  Report involving Dr Andrew Futter finds nuclear weapon increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

• Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/yellowstone

  A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event.

• Quarantine support available for international students heading to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/quarantine

  The University of Leicester has published clear guidance for international students traveling to the UK this autumn, offering no-cost accommodation to every student required to quarantine.