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• Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester

  Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.

• First Juno science results supported by Jupiter forecast by Leicester astronomers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/first-juno-science-results-supported-by-jupiter-2018forecast2019-by-leicester-astronomers

  New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by our astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno mission, announced today.

• HyPIR Lecturer provides testimony to Parliaments Brexit Committee on Galileo programme and UK space policy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/hypir-lecturer-provides-testimony-to-parliament2019s-brexit-committee-on-galileo-programme-and-uk-space-policy

  On Wednesday 9 May Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations at HyPIR, provided oral testimony at a hearing of the UK Parliament’s House of Commons Exiting the EU Select Committee.

• US election sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/us-election-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Pew Forum on Religion and Public life now has a site with news and comment on the role of religion in the 2012 presidential election: http://projects.pewforum.

• Research team receives 65 million for EURO SHOCK heart attack study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/research-team-receives-20ac6-5-million-for-euro-shock-heart-attack-study

  A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has been awarded €6.5 million from the Horizon 2020 European Commission fund.

• University-supported enterprise picks up regional award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/brainberry

  An innovative healthcare collaboration supported by the University of Leicester has been recognised with a regional award.

• Major grant and awards recognition for electronic waste recycling solution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/ewaste-award

  An electronic waste-recycling process that’s kinder to the planet – and uses pioneering technology developed at the University of Leicester – has attracted a £1.2m grant and national awards recognition.

• Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon

  University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.

• Forensic analysis using micro-CT

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/forensic-analysis

  The forensic analysis of the Greyfriars bones by micro-computer X-ray tomography (micro-CT) is the first time that this advanced technique has been applied to an archaeological investigation and was crucial to the investigation.

• Incunabula in Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/10/incunabula-in-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 10, 2014 For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501).