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• University Vice-Chancellor honoured to switch on Leicester’s Diwali lights

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/diwali

  The University of Leicester’s Vice-Chancellor will be lighting up Leicester’s world-famous Diwali celebrations.

• 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.

• Introducing the Library’s Inclusive Collections Group

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/03/13/introducing-the-librarys-inclusive-collections-group/

  Posted by khn5 in Library and Learning Services on March 13, 2023 The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body.

• Leicester historian’s ‘elegant pages’ that provided the script for last coronation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-order-of-service

  Details of University of Leicester historian’s contribution to the design and printing of the Order of Service for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II unearthed

• 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