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5th August 2013 Sol 355
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/05/5th-august-2013-sol-355/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2013 We are just about at the one Earth year anniversary of our landing. MSL Landing was on the 5th August Pacific time and about 6 am, 6th August British Summertime.
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Wednesday 15th August Sol 10
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/16/wednesday-15th-august-sol-10/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 16, 2012 As we study images of places never seen before I get the full sense of the excitement of exploration that early explorers on Earth must have felt as they encountered new lands .
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Tuesday August 14th Sol 9
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/14/tuesday-august-14th-sol-9/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 14, 2012 Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.
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University of Leicester staff blogs Georgian chocolate-making rooms open to the public after 300 yea
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/03/27/georgian-chocolate-making-rooms-open-to-public-after-300-years/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on March 27, 2014 [From a University of Leicester Press Release] The Georgian royal chocolate-making rooms at Hampton Court Palace have been rediscovered and are open to the public for the first time in almost 300 years – and...
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Leicester Astronomers Looking Ahead to First Light for Webb
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/28/leicester-astronomers-looking-ahead-to-first-light-for-webb/
Leicester Astronomers Looking Ahead to First Light for Webb
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Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.
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Bibliotherapy: Engaging with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/10/28/bibliotherapy-engaging-with-asylum-seekers-and-refugees/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in School of English Blog on October 28, 2013 I was recently invited by my friend and former colleague Christine Chettle, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, to lead a guest workshop for STAR (Student Action for Refugees) in...
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Evading a flogging by the Whipping Toms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/02/27/evading-a-flogging-by-the-whipping-toms/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on February 27, 2017 Prior to 1846, Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which precedes the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and was therefore the occasion for an outburst of eating,...
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Academic encounters? International Relations Studies and the “Carceral Archipelago” project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/03/02/academic-encounters-international-relations-studies-and-the-carceral-archipelago-project/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 2, 2017 My recent appointment as lecturer at the History Department of the Utrecht University has brought me in close contact with the bourgeoning field of International Relations (IR) studies.
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Volunteering with UOSH
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/20/volunteering-with-uosh/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on June 20, 2019 Hello I’m Ellie Priestley, a second year Ancient History and History student here at the University of Leicester.