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Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
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Professor Gordon Campbell elected as fellow of Royal Society of Canada
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gordon-campbell-royal-society-of-canada-fellowship
Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. His election to what is the senior national council of Canadian scholars is his third recognition by an Academy.
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Whole World Cake
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/whole-world-cake
Learn more about the Whole World Cake programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Major European grant for research into rare diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/major-european-grant-for-research-into-rare-diseases
Our University has joined an international programme of research to improve the diagnosis of rare diseases.
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Annual lecture archive
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/annual-lecture/annual-lecture-archive
Browse the archive of past annual lectures hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies
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Rise for Leicester to 35th in latest Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/times-rankings
The University of Leicester is on the rise in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, which has ranked the University 35th amongst UK Higher Education institutions.
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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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C++ Programming and Advanced Algorithm Design
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co7104
Module code: CO7104 C++ is one of the world's most popular programming languages, due to its potential for producing efficient and compact code. As such any scientist wishing to develop efficient programs should be familiar with the use of its central features.
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Case studies
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/infection-models/case-studies
Explore the case studies of the infection models at the Leicester Microbial Sciences and Infectious Disease Network.
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Equal Pay Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/equal-pay-day-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 This year equal pay day was 10 th November This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men.