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• Leicester student teams up with influencer to host charity football match for Help the Homeless

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/charity-football-match

  Flexy particularly wanted to help a homeless charity because he knows what it’s like to be in that position. “I’ve been homeless for a lot of my life,” he said.

• What we know now

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/what-we-know-now

  Analysis of the king’s skeleton not only aided its identification but also provided new insights into Richard III’s diet and lifestyle, and what he might have looked like.

• Student calculates which colour lightsaber would be most powerful

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/student-calculates-which-colour-lightsaber-would-be-most-powerful

  Aspiring Jedi Knights will be happy to learn that the red lightsabers used by their enemies, the Sith, are likely the weakest type available on the futuristic arms market, while a purple lightsaber would be the strongest, based on calculations made by a student from our...

• Leicester announces major COVID vaccination programme, as 9 out of 10 students favour jab

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/student-vaccine

  Sample study showed 93% of undergraduate students were willing to get vaccinated Vaccine is not a mandatory requirement for campus study Students back return to in-person teaching The University of Leicester has announced a major COVID-19 vaccination programme,...

• Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/court/chancellor

  Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, joined the University of Leicester as Chancellor on 1 March 2023.

• UK team to lead European mission to study new planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/uk-team-to-lead-european-mission-to-study-new-planets

  The ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) mission was selected as the next European Space Agency (ESA) science mission, putting UK leadership at the heart of research into planets that lie outside our solar system -- exoplanets.

• European Space Agency guest to deliver George Fraser Memorial Lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/elsa-montagnon-lecture

  The European Space Agency's Elsa Montagnon will speak on 'Operating Spacecraft: A Career Operating ESA’s Fleet Throughout the Solar System' for Space Park Leicester on Wednesday, 25 September.

• Space Park Leicester representatives to join space industry colleagues in Germany

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-space-industry-germany-770

  Space Park Leicester staff will attend Space Tech Expo Europe, Europe’s largest B2B event for the space industry

• Strawbs founder honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/david-cousins-honorary-degree

  The University of Leicester conferred an honorary Doctor of Music (DMus) degree on David Cousins, musician, songwriter and founder of UK rock group Strawbs, at its graduation ceremonies on Friday 20 January.

• Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge

  As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.