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• Pompeii’s pungent past earns Leicester student prestigious Roman Society prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/award-dissertation-pompeii-roman-fullonica

  University of Leicester student Molly Mather has won the Roman Society’s MA Dissertation Prize for revealing how Roman laundries in Pompeii managed pungent smells.

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  Dr Henrik Melin is the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) James Webb Fellow at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester unveils new £24m renovated Students’ Union

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/percy-gee-launch

  The newly renovated £24m Percy Gee building – home to the University of Leicester’s Students’ Union – was officially unveiled at a ceremony on Tuesday.

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome

  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.

• Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality

  Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”.

• World-leading expert in hypertension returns to University of Leicester to receive honorary title

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/bryan-williams-expert-hypertension-university-leicester-honorary-title

  The University of Leicester has honoured one of its former professors who has been instrumental in driving global changes in clinical practice for patients with high blood pressure.

• Why Not… Join the Conversation on Discord?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/20/why-not-join-the-conversation-on-discord/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 November 2020 Undergraduate students in the School of Physics and Astronomy run the “To Infinity and Beyond” Discord server, open to all to maintain a strong community during the months of lockdown.

• Leicester scientist helps fine-tune space telescope 1.5million km from home

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/05/20/leicester-scientist-helps-fine-tune-space-telescope-1-5million-km-from-home/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 May 2022 One of the Leicester space scientists who will make observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has travelled to the USA to help open the observatory’s ‘eyes’ to the universe.

• Julia Clark

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/jac85/

  Julia joined the University of Leicester in 2016 to undertake a PhD studentship exploring variations in care following altered fetal movement.

• Implementing lecture capture event 11 Sep 2017 – Implementation, training and support

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/10/05/implementing-lecture-capture-event-11-sep-2017-implementation-training-and-support/

  Posted by Frances Deepwell in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 5, 2017 As part of the ‘ Implementing lecture capture – what are we learning ‘ event on Monday 11 September 2017, we held discussions on the theme of Implementation,...