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Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/24/research-skills-training-for-autumn-2025/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on September 24, 2025 Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program.
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Research shows pollution dispersion in cities is improved by trees
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/research-shows-pollution-dispersion-in-cities-is-improved-by-trees
Trees in cities throughout the UK could be significantly improving the quality of the air we breathe by decreasing pollution levels for pedestrians, researchers Department of Physics and Astronomy have suggested in a new study.
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International team put single molecules in super-fridge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/international-team-put-single-molecules-in-super-fridge
An international team of researchers led by our University has for the first time observed how a single two-atom-large molecule rotates in the coldest liquid known in nature.
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Leader of most powerful observatory on the planet to speak at George Fraser Memorial Lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leader-of-2018most-powerful-observatory-on-the-planet2019-to-speak-at-university-of-leicester
The head of the world’s most powerful observatory will conduct a lecture at our University, examining how new astronomical facilities have led to significant leaps in astronomical research.
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Stephen Wood: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/sjw111/page/2/
Professor of Management
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Stephen Wood: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/stephen_wood/page/2/
Professor of Management
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Royal Society picture portraits of eminent scientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/royal-society-picture-portraits-for-eminent-scientists
Two leading University scientists, Professors Ken Pounds and Stan Cowley from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been photographed by Anne Purkiss for the Royal Society Picture Library.
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New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera
Team including University of Leicester palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more numerous than thought
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Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.
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17m invested in Leicester to turn lab discoveries into new cancer drugs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/ps1-7m-invested-in-leicester-to-turn-lab-discoveries-into-new-cancer-drugs
Cancer Research UK has awarded the University £1.7 million through a new Centres Network Accelerator Award for research to crack the structure of molecules involved in cancer and to develop new drugs.