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Dr Vijay Sharma appointed Pro-Chancellor for Community Engagement at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/vijay-sharma
The former Head of the BBC Asian Network has been appointed Pro-Chancellor for Community Engagement at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester geoscientist makes expedition to the site of Japanese earthquake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/japan
A University of Leicester geoscientist is joining the crew of a science vessel investigating the site of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan.
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University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag
Professor Shipley formed the idea of establishing a flag for Leicestershire in 2014, when he noticed that around half of England’s 39 historic counties had adopted flags in the previous decade or so, and that soon Leicestershire would be one of the few without one.
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Leicester students win out of this world competition for satellite ideas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/satellife
A team of students from Leicester has won thousands of pounds in a competition run by the UK Space Agency calling for innovative ideas on how satellites can improve life on Earth.
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Death of a Poet: Seamus Heaney University of Leicester staff blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/30/death-of-a-poet-seamus-heaney/
Posted by Gordon Campbell in School of English Blog on September 30, 2013 In recent weeks there has been a torrent of tributes to Seamus Heaney, many written by people who claimed friendship with Heaney.
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Children’s Voices in Law in Children’s Lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/licl/2015/01/06/childrens-voices-in-law-in-childrens-lives/
Posted by ekirk in Law in Children's Lives on January 6, 2015 School children. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The 20th November 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) by the UN General Assembly.
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New stateoftheart teaching and research facility certified as UKs largest nonresidential Passivhaus building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-state-of-the-art-teaching-and-research-facility-certified-as-uk2019s-largest-non-residential-passivhaus-building
Our cutting-edge new Centre for Medicine building, built by contractor Willmott Dixon and designed by Associated Architects, has officially received Passivhaus Certification – officially making it the largest Passivhaus building in the UK.
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Donation will advance ground-breaking work taking place to help those at risk of sudden cardiac death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/lifemap
Heart experts at the University of Leicester have been awarded £400,000 to advance their work on a technique to assess a patient’s risk of sudden cardiac death
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MIXS: studying Mercury in detail
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs
BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.
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University equality work wins national award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/19-pride-and-prejudice-award
PinkNews Award Members of the team collecting their award 800|Groundbreaking work by the University of Leicester and the National Trust wins prestigious PinkNews Award.