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Lecturer on FT podcast discusses Galileo Brexit and space policy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/lecturer-on-ft-podcast-discusses-galileo-brexit-and-space-policy
Dr Bleddyn Bowen from HyPIR has featured as the guest on the Financial Times’ latest episode of their fortnightly podcast Brexit Unspun to discuss the recent events in space policy and Brexit negotiations, in light of Bleddyn’s singular expertise on the political and security...
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School of Business shaping initiatives to boost local enterprise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-to-help-shape-local-initiatives
Businesses across the East Midlands are being asked to identify and rank their greatest concerns for the coming 12 months. The question is being posed in the first East Midlands Chamber Quarterly Economic Survey of 2018, in partnership with the School of Business.
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History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform
Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).
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Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built
Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...
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Student becomes youngest to graduate from Harvard
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/student-becomes-youngest-to-graduate-from-harvard
Eugenie de Silva (pictured), who started reading for her PhD at Leicester aged 15, has become the youngest person to graduate from Harvard University.
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Professor Stephen Wood to present research highlighting the importance of employee involvement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stephen-wood-presents-research-highlighting-the-importance-of-employee-involvement
The School of Management’s Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, will be speaking at a UKWON symposium on Bringing wellbeing, mental health and productivity together in the workplace of the future at E.
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Internationally-renowned professor of space physics to present George Fraser Memorial Lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/internationally-renowned-professor-of-space-physics-to-present-george-fraser-memorial-lecture
An internationally renowned professor of space physics will be presenting the second in the series of George Fraser Memorial Lectures at the University on Wednesday 14 October. Professor Fraser, who was Director of the Space Research Centre, died suddenly on 18 March 2014.
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Work to start on iconic University Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/work-to-start-on-iconic-university-engineering-building
A new project to replace the roof and glazed facades of the Engineering Building at the University will start at the beginning of May 2015.
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Black hole bullseye sheds light on interstellar dust
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/black-hole-2018bulls-eye2019-sheds-light-on-interstellar-dust
What looks like a shooting target (right) is actually an image of nested rings of X-ray light centred on an erupting black hole. On June 15, NASA's Swift satellite detected the start of a new outburst from V404 Cygni, where a black hole and a sun-like star orbit each other.
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Bishop of Leicester praises Richard III discovery for becoming a nations story
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/bishop-of-leicester-praises-looking-for-richard-project
The Right Reverend Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester has praised the discovery of Richard III as being a story that has gripped the nation in the speech he gave during the reinterment of Richard III on Thursday 26 March at Leicester Cathedral.