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• Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch

  MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...

• Public transport use may lead to major COVID-19 outbreak

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/public-transport-covid

  A leading academic at the University of Leicester has warned of major COVID-19 outbreaks amongst passengers using public transport if precautions are not taken.

• Advanced Digital, AI and Manufacturing Technologies for Space: The second phase of Space Park Leicester is completed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/spl-phase-2

  Professor Richard Ambrosi, Professor of Space Instrumentation and Space Nuclear Power Systems at the University of Leicester, said: “We are extremely proud of completing phase two of this project.

• Emma makes history as Leicester Medical School marks 50-year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/emma-makes-history-leicester-medical-school-50-year-anniversary

  Emma Zugic made University of Leicester history this week as she became the final student to graduate from the Medical School in its 50th year.

• Limited tickets left for immersive respiratory virus event at King Power Stadium this summer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/respiratory-king-power-event

  An interactive science event turning the home of Leicester City Football Club into a respiratory virus museum has sold out in just five days.

• Gaia Data Release 3: New space data serves as ‘complete step change’ in understanding of our Univers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/06/30/gaia-data-release-3-new-space-data-serves-as-complete-step-change-in-understanding-of-our-universe/

  Space scientists have today (Monday) announced the discovery of a ‘super Jupiter’ orbiting a white dwarf, the first detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia mission.

• Magnifying the Past with JWST

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/28/magnifying-the-past-with-jwst/

  In this guest blog post by Leicester student Roshni Bakrania, which summarises a ResearchBites talk by Dr. Henrik Melin, we explore the results from the first few months of observations by JWST.

• Brussels Street Lamp Museum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/01/07/a-most-illuminating-museum/

  A blog post from the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester about the Brussels Street Lamp Museum

• Thousands of people may not be working due to Long COVID, new research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/covid-working

  Nearly 30,000 people in the UK may be unable to work because of Long COVID, a new study led by Leicester researchers has revealed.

• D-Day in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/05/30/d-day-in-the-east-midlands-oral-history-archive/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on May 30, 2024 The 1980s saw many oral history projects start across the UK.