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• Unemployment Heart Disease prevention fingerprints and babyfarming among research showcased at Festival of Postgraduate Research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/unemployment-heart-disease-prevention-fingerprints-and-2018baby-farming2019-among-research-showcased-at-university-of-leicester-festival

  Research into youth unemployment in the East Midlands and unemployment amongst the elderly and unskilled, how manipulations in genetic ‘switches’ can help prevent heart disease, creating new algorithms for fingerprint identification and a re-evaluation of ‘baby-farming’...

• 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

• Calculations reveal Santa travels at 0.5% the speed of light

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/21-calculations-reveal-how-quickly-santa-travels

  Calculations reveal how quickly Santa travels Santa and reindeer|University of Leicester students have worked out just how fast Santa Claus has to travel to deliver all of his presents on time On Christmas Eve night, Santa Claus and his reindeer fly around the world...

• Winning Poem Published by NASA-Chandra

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/02/04/winning-poem-published-by-nasa-chandra/

  Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on February 4, 2016 Illustration Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J.

• 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.

• Dont try this at home How to make fireworks 17thcentury style

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/dont-try-this-at-home-how-to-make-fireworks-17th-century-style

  With Guy Fawkes night (5 November) and Diwali (11 November) on the horizon, the skies of Leicester will be lit up over the next few weeks by firework displays - and a rare book held within the University's Library sheds light on how 17th century fireworks were made.

• Unravelling the Minion genome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/unravelling-the-2018minion2019-genome

  Based on what we know of the minions from the popular Despicable Me films – and the Minions movie current playing at cinemas – they could, in theory, have a complex genetic make-up similar to humans, according to Natural Sciences students Krisho Manoharan and Ruth Sang Jones.

• Young Leicester artists raise money for charity through ‘Hopefulness’ exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/aac-hopefulness

  A new exhibition featuring the work of budding artists from Leicester College has opened at the Attenborough Arts Centre, the University of Leicester’s public arts programme.  The Art and Design students were asked what ‘hope’ meant to them.

• Attenboroughs pledge support for Leicesters centenary celebration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/attenboroughs-pledge-support-for-leicester2019s-centenary-celebration

  Sir David Attenborough OM and his nephew, Michael Attenborough CBE, were the guests of honour at the University's Alumni Association’s Black Tie Dinner event in London last night, where they were announced as the patrons of our upcoming centenary celebrations.