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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/contact-us/
View the Moderation and Community Guidelines . Blogging is a multi-tool for today’s academic, whether early-career, established or somewhere in between. Useful for both researching and rehearsing ideas, it can even be an early form of publication.
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Sand clouds, water vapour and sulphur dioxide detected on nearby exoplanet using world-leading space telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/jwst-sand-clouds
New study that has discovered ‘sand clouds’ on a planet orbiting a nearby star using James Webb Space Telescope involves University of Leicester space scientist, using the MIRI instrument that University engineers and scientists helped design and develop.
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Clearing University of Leicester makes hundreds of offers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/clearing-2016
Clearing and Adjustment Hotline: UK Students: 0116 373 6000 International/EU Students: +44 (0)116 223 1888Confirmation: 0116 252 2222 Visit www.le.ac.uk/clearing for more information. More than 7,600 calls have been made to the University of Leicester's Clearing numbers.
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Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch
Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.
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University of Leicester researchers take part in parliamentary roundtable on NHS staff retention
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/parliamentary-roundtable-nhs-staff-retention
Professor Manish Pareek from the University of Leicester joins panel to share evidence to inform local and national policy
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Nixon Court building works
https://le.ac.uk/study/accommodation/faqs/nixon-court-building-works
Learn more about building works taking place throughout Nixon Court during the academic year to refresh the exterior of the buildings.
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Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.
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Advanced Discrete Mathematics
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ma2042
Module code: MA2042 The objects of study in Discrete Mathematics are mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous.
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Contemporary Hollywood
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ha3432
Module code: HA3432 This module will focus on contemporary, popular film. The module will offer an outline of industrial shifts and key movements in recent, mainstream cinema.
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Suggested reading
https://le.ac.uk/natural-sciences/study/suggested-reading
Sutton: Biology Breithaupt: Physics Lewis & Evans: Chemistry Trefil & Hazen: Sciences: An Integrated Approach We also recommend the following popular science books (and New Scientist magazine of course!) : Life Ascending: The Ten Great...