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• Prestigious Fellowship awarded to Leicester Mathematician

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/prestigious-fellowship-awarded-to-leicester-mathematician

  Dr Sibylle Schroll from our Department of Mathematics has been awarded a prestigious £1 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Fellowship to realise her ambitious research program on 'Graphs in Representation Theory'.

• Research suggests bowel cancer medication could help combat earlyonset Parkinsons disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-suggests-bowel-cancer-medication-could-help-combat-early-onset-parkinson2019s-disease

  People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease could potentially benefit from taking a medication used to treat certain forms of cancer, according to new research by Leicester scientists and funded by the Medical Research Council.

• Student from School of Business wins Presidents Prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/student-from-school-of-business-wins-president2019s-prize

  A University of Leicester student has won the President’s Prize in a national competition designed to show what it takes to be future business leaders.

• Dr Chris Bayliss' projects

  https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects/bayliss

  Browse the PhD projects offered for supervision by Dr Chris Bayliss in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.

• Differential Geometry

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ma4152

  Module code: MA4152 Geometry is one of the oldest scientific disciplines. An understanding of the shape and size of objects has been, and continues to be, fundamental for advances in technologies and civilisation.

• Microbiologist honoured with bug named after him

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/microbiologist-has-bug-named-after-him

  Microbiologist Bill Grant (pictured), Emeritus Professor in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation has a new honour to add alongside his career accolades - he has a bug named after him.

• Sociology student awarded UN internship in Indonesia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/sociology-student-awarded-un-internship-in-indonesia

  Student Cindy Colondam, who is due to start her second year studying Sociology, has been working as an intern for the United Nations (UN) as part of their UN Global Pulse initiative in Jakarta, Indonesia over the summer.

• Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/discovery-sheds-light-on-how-vertebrates-see

  New research led by Professor Sarah Gabbott from the Department of Geology has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million year-old lamprey and hagfish fossils.

• Nuclear expert sheds light on ‘War Factories’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/war-factories

  A nuclear expert from the University of Leicester has featured on a new UKTV documentary covering the industry of conflict. Andrew Futter is a Professor of International Politics and a leading academic in the politics of nuclear weapons.

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the University of Leicester’s English course, from September.