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• Historian reveals Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard III are cousins

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/historian-reveals-benedict-cumberbatch-and-richard-iii-are-cousins

  Leading historian and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Kevin Schürer, whose genealogy research helped to confirm the identity of King Richard III, has now discovered a link between Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch and the King.

• Sluckin lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/psychology-vision-sciences/sluckin-lectures

  The Sluckin Lecture is an annual event at the University of Leicester to commemorate Professor Wladyslaw Sluckin (1919–1985), one of the original members of the University of Leicester’s Department of Psychology and Head of Department from 1973 until his retirement in 1984.

• Hollywood star among six more honorary graduates of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/honorands2

  Entrepreneurs Ian Mattioli MBE and Jimmy Mayer were both conferred a Doctorate of Laws for successful business careers and a history of philanthropy.

• COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/microcarb

  The new funding is to complete the build and testing of the satellite, led by Thales Alenia Space at the RAL Space assembly and test facilities on the Harwell Space Cluster, in Oxfordshire, and for NCEO experts at the universities of Leicester and Edinburgh to translate...

• Cataloguing the AIM archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/08/hanna-noor-cataloguing-the-aim-archive/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on January 8, 2020   Guest post from Hana Noor, a former MA Museum Studies student at the University of Leicester, 2019 Some of the AIM papers in the archive store, before processing       As part of my...

• Firstclass graduate blazing her trail for womens empowerment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/first-class-graduate-blazing-her-trail-for-women2019s-empowerment

  Graduating this week with a First Class Honours in Management Studies and Marketing, Faith is combining the entrepreneurial skills she gained whilst studying at the University of Leicester with her passion for women’s empowerment to create the social enterprise ‘Belles Network.

• Student becomes youngest to graduate from Harvard

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/student-becomes-youngest-to-graduate-from-harvard

  Eugenie de Silva (pictured), who started reading for her PhD at Leicester aged 15, has become the youngest person to graduate from Harvard University.

• Journey to Justice

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/journey-to-justice

  Journey to Justice exhibition on US civil rights activism, social justice activism in Leicester, and public engagement activities.

• A universe of opportunity showcased at GREAT Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/a-universe-of-opportunity-showcased-at-great-festival-1

  We brought a small taste of Leicester to Hong Kong in March and opened up a whole universe of opportunity for Asia’s education and business community.

• University provides opportunity for children to win photograph taken from space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/university-provides-opportunity-for-children-to-win-photograph-taken-from-space

  Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...