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• Paediatric Cardiologist from our University part of team that helped to deliver miracle baby with heart growing outside of her body

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/paediatric-cardiologist-from-our-university-part-of-team-that-helped-to-deliver-2018miracle-baby2019-with-heart-growing-outside-of-her-body

  Academic Champion in Paediatric Cardiology Dr Frances Bu’Lock, from our University’s College of Life Sciences, has worked as part of a team of around 50 clinical staff at Glenfield Hospital to bring Vanellope Hope, a baby with an incredibly rare condition which had her heart...

• Trailblazing astrophysicist and champion of women in science to deliver University of Leicester public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/jocelyn-bell

  Two science superstars will converge at the University of Leicester for a special public lecture, next month.

• University of Leicester enters strategic partnership with East Midlands Chamber

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/university-leicester-partnership-east-midlands-chamber

  The University of Leicester has entered a strategic partnership with East Midlands Chamber.

• Unearthing St Marys Abbey at the Yorkshire Museum

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/unearthing-st-marys-abbey-at-the-yorkshire-museum

  Yingqi Gao/Yorkshire Museum/St. Mary’s Abbey

• Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed

  The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.

• Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality

  Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling.  Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.

• New battlefields: the reality of space warfare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/30-new-battlefields-reality-space-warfare

  Dr Bleddyn Bowen from the School of History, Politics and International Relations was interviewed by Forces Network for a special feature on the emerging threat of space warfare, Trump’s Space Force, and what Brexit means for the UK in space.

• UK to tackle danger of the solar wind and find new Earth-like planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-solar-wind-smile-plato

  New national space funding worth £7 million will ensure UK scientists play a leading role in a new space weather mission, the Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced on the first day of British Science Week (8 March).

• Engineering Building listed as one of the worlds best unsung buildings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/engineering-building-listed-as-one-of-the-worlds-best-unsung-buildings

  Our University's internationally famous Grade II* listed Engineering Building has been included in The Guardian's 'Castles in the sky' list, highlighting some of the world's best unsung buildings.

• Researcher receives top award for work on meteorites and Martian geology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/researcher-award-meteorites-mars-geology

  PhD student Francesca Willcocks' research has included the Winchcombe meteorite, the exploration of Gale Crater by NASA’s Curiosity Rover and preparations for Mars Sample Return