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• Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells

  A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.

• Attenborough Arts Centre shortlisted for Learning Programme of the Year

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/attenborough-arts-centre-heritage-museum-shortlist

  Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier programme has been nominated for bringing arts and culture to the classrooms of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

• University of Leicester economics student makes history with rowing Gold

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/lauren-henry-gold

  Economics student Lauren Henry wins Gold at the Games in Paris

• Plantings

  https://le.ac.uk/100-trees/plantings

  Global celebration On 4 October 2021 we marked our 100th Birthday in a celebration which brought together our students, staff, partners, alumni, friends and supporters from all around the world.

• Tackling sexual violence

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/dna-kits

  Professor Lisa Smith discusses how new DNA kits are helping to ensure survivors of sexual violence find justice.

• Sycamore Gap sapling to be planted in University of Leicester Botanic Garden

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/sycamore-gap

  The University of Leicester Botanic Garden will plant a Sycamore Gap sapling as part of the tree's legacy.

• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts.

• One down… seven to go

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/licl/2015/04/29/one-down-seven-to-go/

  Posted by ekirk in Law in Children's Lives on April 29, 2015 School staff member Sam Simmonds playing the game Things are charging ahead here in the Law in Children’s Lives project.

• Recognition for Ophthalmology researcher at worlds biggest vision conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/recognition-for-ophthalmology-researcher-at-world2019s-biggest-vision-conference

  A researcher at the University has been recognised at the world’s biggest vision conference.

• Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2348

  Module code: HS2348 The end of three hundred years of the Romanov dynasty marked the beginning of a dramatically different era in Russian history. V.I.