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• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• Can Black Hole Tidal Disruptions Leave Remnants?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/22/can-black-hole-tidal-disruptions-leave-remnants/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 April 2020 A guest blog from Professor Andrew King on black holes and observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton.

• Leicester Innovation Hub is 'wonderful and transformative'

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/24-innovation-hub-launch-report

  Civic leaders highlight vital partnerships between University, City and County at launch of £5 million-plus Innovation Hub.

• Over £2 million funding enables international collaboration for space research at University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/uksa-bilateral-funding

  Two research groups at University of Leicester received UK Space Agency funding to support international partnerships

• Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene

  A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.

• Facilities

  https://le.ac.uk/geography/study/facilities

  Geography at the University of Leicester has state-of-the-art facilities, providing a world class environment for student learning. Find out more about our laboratories, our 3D stereo virtual reality theatre, our study centre, equipment and more.

• Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics

  The study was led by Dr Isabel Sauermilch, researcher at the University of Tasmania and Utrecht University, and shows that these events were much more closely linked than previously thought.

• Using the different types of blog in Blackboard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/09/29/using-the-different-types-of-blog-in-blackboard/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 29, 2016 Blogging is a good way to get students to engage with a topic and to collaborate with each other.

• The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/kitten-heel

  Read the article "The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/black-holes-could-grow-as-large-as-50-billion-suns-research-shows

  Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research by Professor Andrew King from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.