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• Wind turbine remains may be among ‘most surprising’ fossils for far future generations, palaeontologists say

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/wind-turbine-remains-surprising-fossils-palaeontology

  University of Leicester palaeontologists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future palaeontologists

• Ministerial visit highlights efforts to enhance empathy in healthcare led by the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ministerial-visit

  The Minister for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, has spent a morning speaking to University of Leicester experts about how empathy can help reduce health outcome disparities by ethnic groups

• Kasabian frontman takes centre stage at University of Leicester graduation ceremony

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/kasabian-frontman-centre-stage-university-leicester-graduation-ceremony

  It was a home-coming gig like no other for Kasabian singer, songwriter and record producer, Sergio ‘Serge’ Pizzorno when he stepped up to receive an honorary degree from the University of Leicester.

• University Vice-Chancellor honoured to switch on Leicester’s Diwali lights

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/diwali

  The University of Leicester’s Vice-Chancellor will be lighting up Leicester’s world-famous Diwali celebrations.

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  https://le.ac.uk/celi/news-and-events

  News and events from the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation.

• Partnership to equip ethnically diverse sports leaders of the future

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/sporting-equals

  The University of Leicester and Sporting Equals have signed a strategic partnership to promote ethnic diversity across sport and physical activity in the UK, and address the lack of diversity among sports leaders.

• Movies

  https://le.ac.uk/iodp/epc/movies

  The following short video-clips illustrate the involvement of the European Petrophysics Consortium (EPC) in the coordination of downhole logging operations and the acquisition of core physical properties measurements from a number of IODP expeditions.

• National programme to detect climate tipping points harnesses Leicester expertise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/detect-tipping-points-climate-research

  University of Leicester’s Professor Valerio Lucarini will lead a work package for Advancing Tipping Point Early Warning (AdvanTip) project

• Black women at greater risk of dying from uterine cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/uterine

  Women in Black ethnic minority groups are at greater risk of dying from uterine, (womb) cancer, latest data shows

• Ground-breaking scientific body appoints Leicester professor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/bridges-stfc-board

  Professor of Planetary Science John Bridges has been appointed to the Science Board of the Science Technology Funding Council (STFC), which supports research in astronomy, physics and space science.