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• Centenary tree planting helps Borough’s competition chances to bloom

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/botanic-bloom

  Dr Richard Gornall, Director of the Botanic Garden & Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Leicester, said: “We are thankful to the borough of Wigston and Oadby for its donation to the garden which marks the centenary of the University of Leicester.

• Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant

  Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme

• Professor Alex Mitchell cited as one of ‘the world’s most influential scientific minds’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-highly-cited

  Professor Alex Mitchell, Honorary Professor of Psycho-oncology and Liaison Psychiatry, has been cited in a list of ‘the world’s most influential scientific minds’ by the influential Web of Science Group.

• Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass

  Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note

• New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

  X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

• Hunt for Universe’s most extreme explosions receives funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/gamma-ray-burst-leverhulme

  Scientists at the University of Leicester receive more than £330,000 from the Leverhulme Trust to rapidly ‘chase’ and analyse gamma-ray bursts

• AI’s role in healthcare to be debated at international empathy conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ai-empathy-stoneygate-centre

  The impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare will come under the spotlight at a major international conference led by experts from the University of Leicester

• Britain’s relationship with the EU on film

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/britains-relationship-with-the-eu-on-film/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016   British Pathe films on Britain’s relationship with the EU including negotiations to join the Common Market.

• Celebrate culture and creativity with Attenborough Arts Centre’s autumn programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aa-autumn

  Highlights of its popular Creative Course programme include Captured on Canvas with painter Jemisha Maadhavji who was recently featured in BBC 1’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits’.

• Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine

  Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.