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University provides opportunity for children to win photograph taken from space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/university-provides-opportunity-for-children-to-win-photograph-taken-from-space
Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...
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Unruly bodies and minds in the medical museum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unruly-bodies-and-minds-in-the-medical-museum
Following Mat Fraser’s astonishing and award-winning commission Cabinet of Curiosities that toured UK museums in 2015, Exceptional & Extraordinary is inviting four artists to explore behind the scenes of eight of the UK’s most renowned medical museums.
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Space Park Leicester move for growing air quality monitoring firm
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/earthsense-spl
A University of Leicester spinout created to tackle air pollution is moving to a new research and innovation centre launched to support the city’s fast-growing space industry.
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Dr Isobel Whitelegg
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/great-minds/isobel-whitelegg
Dr Isobel Whitelegg: Expert in art’s past, and your future.
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Earth observation images reveal extent of ferocious forest fires in Siberia
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/siberian-fires
According to Russia’s forestry agency, this year’s fires have ravaged more than 14m hectares, making it the second-worst fire season since the turn of the century.
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Leicester research informs new Sporting Equals initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-research-informs-new-sporting-equals-initiative
Research from the University's Department of Sociology has informed Sporting Equals’s latest consumer research which provides valuable insight into the the young Asian Pakistani female market that sport providers can draw upon to make sport more inclusive for this...
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Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-dickens-lecture
Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.
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Benedict Cumberbatch relives Richard III reinterment in new interview
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/benedict-cumberbatch-relives-richard-iii-reinterment
Benedict Cumberbatch has described the moment he received an email from the University advising him he was related to King Richard III.
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Leicester researchers develop novel heart pump to help people with heart failure
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-novel-new-pump-to-help-people-with-heart-failure
SZ92jwoXe1k|Dr David Adlam, Associate Professor and Interventional Cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Piyal Samara-Ratna, Mechanical Engineer in the Space Research Centre, have joined forces to combine medical and space research to develop a pump...
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A universe of opportunity showcased at GREAT Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/a-universe-of-opportunity-showcased-at-great-festival-1
We brought a small taste of Leicester to Hong Kong in March and opened up a whole universe of opportunity for Asia’s education and business community.