Search
-
Creating tomorrow’s cardiovascular research leaders
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/tomorrows-cardio
The University of Leicester has been awarded more than one and a half million pounds by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to fund a 4-year PhD Programme to train the next generation of research leaders in cardiovascular science.
-
English Language Teaching Unit celebrates international research students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/english-language-teaching-unit-celebrates-international-research-students
The second annual English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) Research Festival was held on Wednesday 18th February.
-
ITVs Code of a Killer concludes tonight
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/itv2019s-2018code-of-a-killer2019-concludes-tonight
The concluding episode of the two-part ITV fictional drama ‘Code of a Killer’, based on Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys’s discovery of DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester and its first use in a murder enquiry, will air tonight (13 April) from 9pm.
-
Catrin Pritchard
https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/catrin-pritchard
Catrin received her MA in Biochemistry from Jesus College, Oxford University in 1983, and in 1987 she finished her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund on mapping of the male determining gene on the human Y chromosome.
-
Trainee doctors uncertain about their future in NHS, University of Leicester study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/uncertainty
Nine out of ten trainee doctors are concerned about the current state of the National Health Service (NHS), a University of Leicester report has found.
-
Academic awarded funding for involvement in global sensor data project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/diabetes
A researcher based at the Leicester Diabetes Centre has received international funding for his participation in a project that aims to analyse the health benefits of wearable technology
-
GHOST in the sky captures Greenhouse Gases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/ghost-in-the-sky-captures-greenhouse-gases
An instrument co-designed by University of Leicester scientists has been used in aircraft flights over the UK to monitor greenhouse gases.
-
Mercury-bound spacecraft with Leicester-built instrument set to fly by Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/08-bepi-flyby
Space scientists at the University of Leicester are preparing to bid a final farewell to the BepiColombo spacecraft on Friday as it passes close to Earth on its way to Mercury, carrying equipment designed and built at the University.
-
Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-fossil
A beautifully preserved fossil crustacean, 430 million years old, displays its respiratory organs in exquisite detail
-
Leicester scientists discover precious metals in Mordor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/mordor
Two geologists from the University of Leicester have found gold, along with copper, tellurium and other metals in a geological locality in Australia, referred to as the Mordor Igneous Complex - named after its uncanny resemblance to the location from the Lord of the Rings...