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• Study suggests hippocampal neuron responses are associated with memory distinctions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-suggests-hippocampal-neuron-responses-are-associated-with-memory-distinctions

  The hippocampus is a small region of the brain that forms part of the limbic system and is primarily associated with memory and spatial navigation.

• University building to be named after first female professor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/university-building-to-be-named-after-first-female-professor

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has announced that a building at the University is to be named after its first female professor.

• Forensics course explores how science helps police to solve crimes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/forensics-course-explores-how-science-helps-police-to-solve-crimes

  A popular free course offered by our University showcasing how police use forensic science to solve crimes will be running for its fourth time starting from 3 October 2016.

• Leicester astronomers observe star reborn in a flash

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-astronomers-observe-star-reborn-in-a-flash

  An international team of astronomers using Hubble and led by our University has been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed.

• Spectacular views of Red Planet from new space mission analysed by Leicester scientist

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/2018spectacular-views2019-of-red-planet-from-new-space-mission-analysed-by-leicester-scientist

  A space scientist is involved in analysing the first hi-res images from Mars orbit taken by a new exploratory mission.

• New effects in ideal gases solve mathematical mystery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-effects-in-ideal-gases-solve-mathematical-mystery

  A Mathematician from our Department of Mathematics, Professor Alexander Gorban, along with a physicist from ETH Zürich, Ilya Karlin, have challenged traditional concepts of micro and macro worlds and demonstrated how ideal gas unexpectedly exhibits capillarity properties.

• Patient health not age should dictate treatment for mesothelioma University academic says

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/patient-health-not-age-should-dictate-treatment-for-mesothelioma-university-academic-says

  The conclusion of a study by a University team at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, which took place between 1999 and 2015, has suggested that age is not as important in determining treatment options for mesothelioma as previously thought.

• Leicester and Cerner in new research partnership to improve healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-and-cerner-in-new-research-partnership

  Our University is partnering with Cerner, a global health informatics service provider, to understand how the integration of environmental data into a Population Health management system can help improve patient outcomes and communities’ health.

• Scientists invited to take advantage of leading high energy research centres

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/scientists-invited-to-take-advantage-of-leading-high-energy-research-centres

  Our University is facilitating a Europe-wide programme that makes available some of the leading facilities in high energy astrophysics to scientists from around the world.

• Leicester research cited in new series of the X-Files

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/leicester-research-cited-in-new-series-of-the-x-files

  Actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have solved countless mysteries and battled a variety of fierce aliens throughout the years playing agents Mulder and Scully on the X-Files - and now they've turned their attention towards research...