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• Two different schools of thought discuss light

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/two-different-schools-of-thought-discuss-light

  An event which examines the relationship between science and religion and their alternative views on the subject of light will take place on Wednesday 18 November at The Gatehouse Chaplaincy Centre, University Rd from 5.30pm – 8.00pm.

• Metals in dust and soils and health

  https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/our-research/metals-in-dust-and-soils

  The aim of this project is to investigate exposures to metals from soils and dust and assess potential health risks.

• 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.

• Empire’s Exile: The Story of Lý Liễu

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/02/11/empires-exile-the-story-of-ly-lieu/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on February 11, 2016   by Lorraine M. Paterson Map showing the location of French Guiana and Trinidad in relation to each other.

• 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.

• Jupiters jawdropping north pole unlike anything encountered in Solar System

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/jupiters-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system

  Last week NASA's Juno spacecraft sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.