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Record funding Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/record-funding-leverhulme-centre-for-humanity-and-space
New Centre aims to increase the understanding of how humans engage with and experience space
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Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment
Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator
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Home to Joe Orton and Sue Townsend collections receives national accreditation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/archive
An archive service which holds the collections of Leicester literary greats, Joe Orton and Sue Townsend, has received approval from The National Archives.
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Student nurses scoop prestigious awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/nursing-times-awards-leicester
Student Nurses Daud Malida and Lily Scott, from the University of Leicester, have won Student Nursing Times Awards
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University of Leicester celebrates a century of science with chemistry and physics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/celebrate-century-science-chemistry-physics
School of Physics and Astronomy and School of Chemistry mark 100-year anniversary in 2025, with Centenary celebrations on 17 May seeing alumni return to campus and share memories
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Adding genetic information to health checks improves identification of people at risk of heart attacks and strokes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/samani
University of Leicester researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events
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China students experience campus life at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/dalian-summer-school
Leicester hosts summer school for those studying with the Dalian Leicester Institute (DLI) in China
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Radio Leicester and the University of Leicester 50 Years of Collaboration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/radio-leicester-and-the-university-of-leicester-2013-50-years-of-collaboration2019
The recent 50th anniversary of the start of the country’s first BBC local radio station, BBC Radio Leicester, which launched on 8 November 1967, also marks the 50th anniversary of the University of Leicester’s ongoing collaboration with Radio Leicester.
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New Innovation Hub at our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-innovation-hub-at-our-university
A multi-million pound centre to foster and accelerate the next generation of innovators and innovations is being established in Leicester at our University. The Leicester Innovation Hub, a £5.
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Monster planet discovery offers new insights into planet formation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/2018monster2019-planet-discovery-offers-new-insights-into-planet-formation
A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from our Department of Physics and Astronomy.