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• Space scientist makes giant leap towards becoming an astronaut

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientist-makes-giant-leap-towards-becoming-an-astronaut

  Space scientist Dr Suzie Imber from our Department of Physics and Astronomy will be competing to realise her dream of becoming an astronaut as part of a televised competition broadcast by the BBC.

• Red squirrel and human leprosy link found at English medieval archaeological site

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/squirrel

  New evidence from medieval archaeological sites shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) strains also responsible for leprosy in humans.

• Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/esuantsiwa-jane-goldsmith

  “When I was President I had to go to Senate meetings, me with 90-odd white guys, so I always turned up wearing banana yellow and big hair to scare the mortar boards off them.

• Adjusting to life in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/law/study/undergraduate/offer-holder-info/adjusting-to-life-in-leicester

  Starting your law degree is an exciting time but coming to university can be a big step and it may take a little while for you to adjust.

• The necessary discomfort of soft intelligence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/10/07/the-necessary-discomfort-of-soft-intelligence/

  Posted by Graham Martin in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on October 7, 2015 It’s comforting to have hard facts and figures so that we can feel like we know exactly what went wrong and what went right.

• Current PhD Students

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/study/research-degrees/current-phd-students

  Find out more about our PhD students research within Politics and International Relations at Leicester.

• Exam and assessment support

  https://le.ac.uk/library/using/study-spaces/exam-support

  Study spaces; Bookable spaces; Pop-up spaces, Academic Skills; Chill out; Zone out

• Physics and Astronomy

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/physics-and-astronomy

  Find your research degree supervisor in Physics and Astronomy at Leicester.

• Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/18/commemorating-samuel-whitbread-1758-1815/

  Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 18, 2015 ‘I deny the insane proposition that peace is more dangerous than war’: Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 By E.J.

• Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/jupiter-tug-of-war

  Dr Jonathan Nichols is a Reader in Planetary Auroras at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study.