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• Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain

  Date: 8 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/perinatal-loss-infancy-death-leicester

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the University of Leicester’s...

• Exhibition brings Leicester’s Second World War voices to life to mark VE Day’s 80th anniversary

  Date: 7 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/website-leicester-second-world-war-voices-ve-day-80th-anniversary

  The voices of Leicester people who lived through the Second World War can now be heard on a website launched in time for the 80th anniversary of...

• Leicester partners with Midlands universities to become Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

  Date: 7 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-policing-academic-centre-excellence

  A consortium from the University of Leicester, University of Birmingham and Aston University has been selected as one of nine new Policing...

• New educational video series on Icelandic eruptions recognised in three of the UK’s most prestigious Geography educational awards

  Date: 6 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/video-icelandic-eruptions-geography-educational-awards

  University Leicester contributes to video series through the involvement of Dr Marc Reichow from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment

• Universities call on communities to shape research to solve real-life problems

  Date: 2 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-universities-communities-research-solve-real-life-problems

  Community organisations across Leicester and Leicestershire are being offered the chance to steer university research.

• Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources

  Date: 2 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable

  University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  Date: 1 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old...

• New hope for patients with aggressive asbestos-linked cancer as trial shows a targeted cancer treatment can improve survival

  Date: 30 Apr 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/asbestos-cancer-nero-leicester-fennell

  Leicester researchers have shown for the first time that a drug that prevents cancer cells from repairing can control the growth of mesothelioma,...

• Global first test success for a University of Leicester–NASA space power system

  Date: 28 Apr 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/test-success-university-leicester-nasa-space-power-system

  Scientists at the University of Leicester and NASA’s Glenn Research Center have combined cutting edge radioisotope power system technology with...

• Scientists investigate bumblebee decline due to particulate pollutant exposure

  Date: 15 Apr 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/bees-gut-microbiome-pollution

  By studying bumblebee exposure to particulate air pollutants scientists at the University of Leicester have determined that the diversity and...