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• Leicester alumnus Andy Byford set to save New Yorks neglected subways

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/leicester-alumnus-andy-byford-set-to-save-new-yorks-neglected-subways

  Leicester alumnus Andy Byford, who studied German and French at Leicester, has recently taken up the monumental task of turning around New York's ageing, failing subway system.

• University lights up medical building in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/baby-loss-awareness

  As part of the national campaign to highlight the importance of Baby Loss Awareness Week, the University of Leicester’s George Davies Centre, home to many of Leicester’s world-changing health researchers and teaching spaces, will join other national UK landmarks in being lit...

• George Harrison

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/george-harrison

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of George Anthony Harrison, who lectured in history from the 1960s to the 1990s and remained a familiar figure on campus for many years afterwards. George passed away on 22 January 2025, aged 87.

• Event kickstarts drive to bring multi-million pound funding to East Midlands’ creative and cultural industries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/kickstart-multi-million-pound-funding-east-midlands-creative-cultural-industries

  Companies such as Google, IBM and Adobe were represented alongside the region’s business leaders, academics, funders and policymakers at The Future of the Creative and Cultural Industries event on 18 June.

• Obamas nuclear policy wishlist appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018obama2019s-nuclear-policy-wish-list-appears-neither-politically-viable-nor-diplomatically-wise2019

  Without broad approval at home or abroad Obama’s nuclear policy wish-list appears neither politically viable nor diplomatically wise in the longer term, according to Dr Andrew Futter and PhD student James Johnson from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• Student support campaign raises £1,000 for local homeless charity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/21-bridge

  The University of Leicester’s work alongside The Bridge Homelessness to Hope has had a huge impact on students this autumn, and helped raise more than £1,000 for local rough sleepers.

• History of tobacco and our health

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/tobacco-history

  How did tobacco become one of the first truly global commodities, and arguably history’s most deadly habit?

• 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.

• Geologists reveal omnipresent effects of human impact on Englands landscape

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/geologists-reveal-2018omnipresent2019-effects-of-human-impact-on-england2019s-landscape

  ‘Omnipresent’ signs demonstrating the effects of human impact on England’s landscape have been revealed by researchers from our Department of Geology.

• Solar eclipse echoes astronomical events during Richard IIIs time

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/solar-eclipse-echoes-astronomical-events-during-richard-iiis-time

  This Friday’s solar eclipse has as much relevance to Ricardians as it does for countless astronomers and stargazers across the globe.