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• Room types

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/accommodation/room-types

  Find out about the different room types in our halls, from twin bedrooms to one-bedroom flats, including information on adapted rooms for disabled students.

• University to mark founding legacy as living memorial

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/living-memorial

  A major figure in the foundation of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College – which would later go on to become the University of Leicester – was local man Dr Astley Clarke. During the war, Astley was an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

• 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

• From the subatomic to the intergalactic: scientists gather in Leicester to share supercomputer results

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-dirac-day

  Experts in astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology will assemble at the University of Leicester this week to share the latest scientific advances which have been made possible by DiRAC, a multi-site supercomputing facility.

• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.

• Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system

  An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.

• Changing the face of British sport governance

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/12-sporting-equals

  Sporting Equals and the University of Leicester are partners in a New LeaderBoard Academy in Sports Governance

• Evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare teams

  https://le.ac.uk/empathy/study/healthcare-teams

  Find out more about the evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare teams course at the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare.

• Creating empathic systems

  https://le.ac.uk/empathy/study/creating-empathic-systems

  Find out more about the creating empathic systems workshop held in the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare

• UK’s poorest students set to benefit most from university redesign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/poorest-students

  Young people from the poorest parts of the UK are primed to benefit most as universities scramble to offer safe education as they emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown.