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• Leicester student is one of only eight in the world to win astronomy competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-student-is-one-of-only-eight-in-the-world-to-win-astronomy-competition

  A student from Space Research Centre is one of only eight people in the world – and the only one in the UK – to win a place to visit one the world’s most advanced telescopes, travel to the most arid desert in the world – and sleep where James Bond did! Second...

• New exercise programme to reduce heart disease risk in kidney transplant patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-exercise-programme-to-reduce-heart-disease-risk-in-kidney-transplant-patients

  A new exercise programme is being developed by researchers at our University, working with Loughborough University and Leicester’s Hospitals, to reduce the risk of heart disease in people who have had a kidney transplant.

• Migrant money able to reduce poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/migrant-money-able-to-reduce-poverty-and-inequality-in-sub-saharan-africa

  A new study, published in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, has shown that poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa can be reduced by international remittances.

• University celebrates 50th anniversary of UKs first mass communication research centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-uks-first-mass-communication-research-centre

  2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.

• English Language Teaching Unit establishes link with Kettering Hospital

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/english-language-teaching-unit-establishes-link-with-kettering-hospital

  On April 15th, the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) started a 12-week programme delivering English for Nurses classes to international nurses working at Kettering General Hospital.

• Ophthalmology researcher wins prestigious prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/08-ophthalmology-award

  Zhanhan Tu Zhanhan Tu|Best Talk prize for Dr Zhanhan Tu at the European Paediatric Opthalmological Society conference.

• Obituary: Emeritus Professor Eric Dunning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/15-obituary-emeritus-professor-eric-dunning

  It was with great sadness that the University has learned of the death of Emeritus Professor Eric Dunning. Eric was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murphy and John Williams, of the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research.

• Leicester wins Best University Employability Strategy at TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-targetjobs-graduate-recruitment-awards-2019

  The University of Leicester was recognised at the prestigious TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards in London on Thursday 4th April, winning Best University Employability Strategy.

• Danielle Brown inducted into BUCS Hall of Fame

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/18-danielle-brown-bucs-hall-of-fame

  On Wednesday 5 June, University of Leicester Law graduate Danielle Brown was inducted into the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Hall of Fame.

• Tropical phages

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/bacteriophages/tropical-phages

  Tropical phages/temperature dependent bacteriophages switch between lysogenic and lytic phases. At the university, research has been done on the tropical pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei which can cause melioidosis