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• Student Sophie on a mission to promote heart health after the loss of her dad

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/defib

  A student who found her father lying dead on the driveway is behind a raft of measures to raise awareness of heart-related deaths at her university.

• Blog 3: Items of Interest. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/04/09/blog-3-items-of-interest-chosen-by-jenni-hunt/

  Third blog of 3 by Jenni Hunt, temporary archive assistant, about the items she found most interesting during the listing work she has been doing.

• Welcome to the jungle: Leicester student recalls life-changing British Army deployment to Belize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/belize

  Army reservist and Leicester student Lieutenant Rob Blackman recalls his British Army deployment to Belize.

• Leicester City Science Stars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-city-science-stars

  Ever wondered what would happen when a group of football professionals, an astronaut in training and 30 children are in one room? Last week more than 30 primary school children explored what it would take to become an astronaut and learned how to build their own rockets...

• Beehold our hivestar bumble abode

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/bee-hold-our-hive-star-bumble-abode

  Ahead of World Environment Day on Sunday 5 June, students at the University are helping to build replicas of insect natural habitats in two new locations in Leicester.

• Dating the Social Death of the Eighteenth Century Criminal. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/23/dating-the-social-death-of-the-eighteenth-century-criminal-by-rachel-bennett/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 23, 2015 In April 2015 I presented a paper at a conference held at the University of Leicester entitled ‘When is Death?’ The conference was organised by members of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the...

• University of Leicester celebrates Knowledge Exchange Framework results

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/kef-2023

  Latest KEF results show that the University of Leicester’s strong performance in the KEF last year has further improved moving up in both Research Partnerships and Public and Community Engagement.

• MESSENGER

  https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/about/messenger

  There have been two previous missions to Mercury; NASA’s Mariner 10 mission, which completed three flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, and MESSENGER. MESSENGER was the first mission to orbit Mercury.

• Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton

  Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans.

• Pregnancy in landscape – the rise of the banner bump

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2017/03/14/pregnancy-in-landscape/

  Julia Clark examines the overwhelming prevalence of 'banner bumps' in media representations of pregnancy