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• Outgoing Chancellor Lord Willetts commends University of Leicester welcome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/willetts

  The University of Leicester’s outgoing Chancellor The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS has commended its long-held reputation of being welcome to all, as he passes the baton to his successor.

• Gaia: the galactic mapmaker that is leading a ‘silent revolution’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/gaia-anniversary

  University of Leicester scientists mark tenth anniversary of the Gaia space observatory, and its efforts to create a 3D map of our galaxy

• Leicester expert leads fight to cut India’s annual toll of 50,000 snakebite deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/india-snakes

  A University of Leicester academic is using her expertise to help India cut the number of fatalities from snake-bites.

• Leicester diabetes figures up by a third in five years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-diabetes-figures-up-by-a-third-in-five-years

  The number of adults in Leicester with diabetes has risen by 33 per cent in the last five years, according to new figures.

• University of Leicester granted Freedom of the Borough by Oadby & Wigston Borough Council

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/freedom-of-borough

  At an extraordinary meeting of full council on Tuesday 30 March, Oadby & Wigston Borough Council granted the University of Leicester Honorary Freedom of the Borough and bestowed the title of Honorary Freeman upon the University - the highest honour the Borough can bestow.

• BBC commissions Leicester artist to mark ‘Culture in Quarantine’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/spectrum-sounds-bbc-commission

  Professor Hugill directs the Creative Computing programme at the University of Leicester and is an Honorary Creative Fellow at the Attenborough Arts Centre, as well as sitting on its Advisory Board. He also leads the AHRC-funded ‘Aural Diversity’ project.

• Review outlines methods to estimate life expectancy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/life-expectancy

  Five key methods have been explored by Leicester researchers to calculate life expectancy and the life years lost due to disease and illness.

• International type 2 diabetes prevention drive suggested by COVID-19 review

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/diabetes-covid

  An international drive to highlight to the importance of prevention of diabetes has been proposed following a review in the wake of the pandemic.

• Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine

  Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  Dr Eric Guiry is Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study, which focused on two locations close to Yuquot, Canada, and compared findings to sites in the USA, Russia and Japan.