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Student Sophie on a mission to promote heart health after the loss of her dad
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/defib
A student who found her father lying dead on the driveway is behind a raft of measures to raise awareness of heart-related deaths at her university.
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Atelier Labs wins Falling Walls Engage 2023
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/falling-walls-engage
A project using art to empower young people with SEND to become researchers wins in the Science Engagement category of the international Falling Walls Engage awards.
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Leicester professor leads major European diabetes research study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-professor-leads-major-european-diabetes-research-study
A Leicester professor says there are around 58 million people currently living with diabetes across Europe and 36 million more who are at risk of developing the condition.
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Adam Kay, Russell Kane and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock headline 2024 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/literary-leicester
Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester’s annual free literature festival, will return next month.
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Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens
Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission
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Leicester space artist to embark on inspirational research project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/space-artist-nasa
Space artist Matt Turner will be visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center USA to develop new artworks to be exhibited at Space Park Leicester.
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Leicester researcher scoops Lifetime Achievement Award for innovations in health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/innovation-awards
Professor Philip Baker, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, addressed innovators, inventors and developers from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in celebration of the University’s Centenary.
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University of Leicester hosts 100th birthday festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/changemakers-festival
The University of Leicester welcomed students, staff, alumni and guests from the local community on Saturday in celebration of the University’s Centenary.
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Ground-breaking view of the cosmos revealed at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/jwst-first-light
Scientists and engineers from the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester have been part of the Webb project for more than 20 years and have been involved in the design, manufacture and testing of Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).
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Experts to debate impact of the Prevent strategy at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/scarman-770
Experts on hate extremism and the policymaking designed to tackle it are to convene for a University of Leicester public event, to debate the impact of the UK Government’s Prevent strategy.