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I’m an Engineer! I’m a Scientist!
PhD student Sam Frampton explains this excellent chance to engage with school students online, answer questions, and win money for outreach. I need an exact number, how much money do you make? What’s your favourite planet? If aluminium is so far up the reactivity series, why do they choose to build satellites out of it? […]
Chang’e 5: China launches Sample Return Mission to the Moon
Professor John Bridges reports on the successful launch of a new Chinese mission to return samples from the Moon, in this blog post reprinted from The Conversation. China has been the only country to land on the Moon for over 40 years – since the Soviet Luna programme. Its recent Chang’e missions (1-4) demonstrated that China […]
Congrats to Soheb Mandhai – Winning Entry for RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition
The School congratulates researcher Soheb Mandhai on one of the five winning entries for the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) poster exhibition. With NAM cancelled in the RAS’s 200th anniversary year, the RAS wanted to give early career researchers the opportunity to share their work in a format that is freely available to all. Led by […]
ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti: National Space Centre Live Q&A
Join the National Space Centre on Friday 27th November at 19:00 for a special #SciFRI, as ESA Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti takes part in a live Q&A session. What’s it like to live on the International Space Station? How do you become an astronaut? What’s your favourite thing about space? You can ask an astronaut your space questions this […]
PhysUoL Live: Next Big Thing in Astro
The Physics Community Team is delighted to invite all members of the School to the first PhysUoL Live discussion event, this Friday November 27th at 4pm. This will be the first in a series of live Q&A sessions hosted via Microsoft Teams, allowing students and staff to get up to speed with the latest scientific […]
Why Not…. Join Our All-School Quiz on December 1st?
As we’re nearing the end of term, we thought we’d have a bit of fun, so the Physics Community team is excited to invite all members of the School to an All-School Quiz on Tuesday the 1st of December at 5:30-7:30 pm. We want this to be an opportunity for us to better connect with […]
Royal Aeronautical Engineering Society webinar: UK as a Global Space Power
The Royal Aeronautical Engineering Society is hosting a webinar with a panel including Leicester’s Professor John Remedios, discussing the UK as a global space power. Have you noticed the increasing presence of space in UK news? That’s not just because space is exciting (although it is!), it’s not just because the BBC loves space stories […]
Why Not… Join the Conversation on Discord?
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. For many of us, learning how to communicate and maintain friendships in a virtual world is a relatively new experience, with many hours of formal […]
Leicester in Space: 1960-69
The University of Leicester has a long and distinguished record of involvement in space science. In the first of a series of blog posts written for the 50th anniversary (2011), Professor Ken Pounds describes how Leicester came to be in the forefront of space research and charts the milestones in space exploration. Nations around the […]
PhD Projects for 2021
Several proposed STFC-supported and NERC-supported PhD studentships in Planetary Science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation will be available at the University of Leicester, starting in September 2021. Application Deadline for STFC projects: January 20th 2021.Application Deadline for NERC/CENTA projects: January 11th 2021. The list of advertised projects can be found here, including (but not limited to) topics in […]
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