This Week at Loughborough | 8 April
Spring Staycation:
Spring Pizza Party
9 April 2024, 1pm-3pm, Granby Common Room (Student Village)
Come along for our daytime Pizza Party for free Pizza, games, music and more. This event will be very popular so book early to avoid disappointment.
My Lifestyle: Turn up and play – Basketball
9 April 2024, 2pm-3pm, New Victory Hall (Holywell Sports Complex)
The My Lifestyle programme is a FREE and inclusive recreational sport and physical activity offer, that is open to and welcomes everybody of any ability. Come along for a free game of basketball and make new friends. Please note this session is self-guided.
ISE Five-a-side Indoor Football Tournament
11 April 2024, 6pm-8pm, New Victory Hall (Holywell Sports Complex)
Come along and represent your country in our indoor football tournament. This is your chance to win our Easter Cup alongside some chocolatey prizes.
Please book on the Loughborough Sports App (on the MyLifestyle tile). Booking will open one week before the event. If you have a team already, you need to make sure all your team members book individually. Numbers are limited so book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
LU Arts Workshop Chinese Painting
12 April 2024, 1pm-3pm, Edward Barnsley Building, Room 63108
During this engaging workshop, you’ll learn the techniques and intricacies of Chinese Painting, capturing the beauty of traditional brushwork and vibrant colours. Let your creativity flow as you create your own masterpiece to cherish or share with loved ones.
General:
Inspiring Minds: Social Sciences and Humanities
9 April 2024, 9am-4pm, James France
Inspiring Minds is Loughborough University’s series of taster days for Year 12 students. It’s an excellent opportunity to learn more about the options available at the University and how to get there.
IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning
10 April 2024, 10.30am-12pm, International House
The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) are hosting this informal gathering with coffee and cakes, where we will be joined by the fourth Residential Fellow of this academic year, Professor Jane Chin Davidson.
Inspiring Minds: Sport
10 April 2024, 9am-4pm, James France
Inspiring Minds is Loughborough University’s series of taster days for Year 12 students. It’s an excellent opportunity to learn more about the options available at the University and how to get there.
Inaugural Lecture
10 April 2024, 5pm, EHB110B (Edward Herbert Building)
Loughborough University extends a warm welcome for everyone to attend these engaging public events, delivered by its Professors on campus.
Professor Yu’s lecture will explore how integrated processes – combining biological and electrochemical reactions – can provide a crucial route to achieving a healthy circular economy that supports sustainable development.
Professor Christie will show how the preparation of small molecules can now be achieved rapidly by machines, as well as how chemistry can influence biological systems.
Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch
27 March – 23 April 2024, 12pm-2pm, Martin Hall Exhibition Space
An exhibition highlighting the work from English at Loughborough University’s Health Humanities Research Network.
The exhibition’s themes translate and distil high-quality research on health, society and culture across time and space into material objects, art, poetry, life writing, and literature. The work on display represents individual research endeavours and narrativises the sickness, health and wellbeing contexts across time and space.
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