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• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• University pledges to offer a hundred Sanctuary Awards to displaced people worldwide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/distance-learning

  Read more about University of Leicester offering one hundred distance learning scholarships to displaced people across the world.

• Launch of the University's new strategy

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/president-and-vice-chancellor/new-strategy

  Vice-Chancellor Nishan Canagarajah’s speech on launching the University's new strategy

• Urine test is breakthrough for high blood pressure patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/urine-test-is-breakthrough-for-high-blood-pressure-patients

  A research team including Leicester scientists has shown that a urine test leads to a drop in blood pressure in patients who had been struggling to regularly take their blood pressure lowering tablets.

• Physics and Astronomy June 2021 Digest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/07/01/physics-and-astronomy-june-2021-digest/

  With exams now behind us, and hopefully a pleasant summer ahead, the Physics Community Team want to share some of the recent highlights from the news blog in May and June 2021.

• Sharp eyes to the skies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/10/30/sharp-eyes-to-the-skies-how-satellites-are-helping-tackle-climate-change/

  How satellites are helping tackle climate change

• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-dickens-lecture

  Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.

• Leicester research informs new Sporting Equals initiative

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-research-informs-new-sporting-equals-initiative

  Research from the University's Department of Sociology has informed Sporting Equals’s latest consumer research which provides valuable insight into the the young Asian Pakistani female market that sport providers can draw upon to make sport more inclusive for this...

• Artistic PhD student pens animated message for World Diabetes Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/artistic-phd-student-pens-video-message-for-world-diabetes-day

  A diabetes researcher at our University has combined science with art to produce a powerful awareness-raising message for World Diabetes Day.

• Leicester Cathedral remembers founding of the University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/25-leicester-cathedral-remembers-founding-of-the-university

  Lecture on University of Leicester’s origins in the Great War will form part of remembrance events at Leicester Cathedral