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Museum of the Bible opens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/museum-of-the-bible-opens
The Museum of the Bible opened today (Friday) in Washington DC. The 430,000 sq ft Museum has involved University of Leicester academic Professor Gordon Campbell.
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John Lewis-University of Leicester Black History Month project wins award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/bhm
A collaboration between the University of Leicester and the city’s John Lewis department store has received a Black History Month award.
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Microbial genomes for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/microbial-sciences/microbial-genomes/school-and-colleges
Genome is the word we use to describe all of an organism's DNA, including its chromosomes and any other pieces of DNA it may have acquired. The University of Leicester provides a range of resources for academic purposes.
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Research case studies
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies
Read our case studies to get a taste of some of the amazing research that happens in the School of Museum Studies.
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The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/baseball-cap
Read the article The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption? This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Children exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in womb or as newborns may face increased social and respiratory problems, new study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/covid-children
University of Leicester researcher contributes to study on SARS-CoV-2 exposure during pregnancy and impact on child development and respiratory health
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New study to explore how personalised drug doses could improve quality of life for people with secondary breast cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/breast-cancer-drug-doses-leicester
A new study by a Leicester researcher will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life
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Leicester research making a big noise wins national award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/john-connell-award
Scientists at the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at University of Leicester receive a ‘Noise Oscar’
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Steve Rippington
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/steve-rippington
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Steve Rippington, Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, on 25 May 2024. Dan Smith writes: Steve was known to many in the former Department of Geology.
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Is it possible to cry a river?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/is-it-possible-to-cry-a-river-after-tottenhams-defeat-leicester-research-examines-plausibility-of-shedding-enough-tears-to-form-a-river
Musicians Arthur Hamilton, Justin Timberlake and unsympathetic people across the world have encouraged others to ‘cry me a river’, a put-down phrase to make light of people’s problems.