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• 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.

• Light exposure could hold the key to a good night’s sleep

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/fruit-fly-sleep-disorders-leicester

  Light signals processed through the eyes helps regulate sleep in fruit flies, and disrupting those visual pathways causes abnormal sleep patterns, a new study by Leicester experts shows.

• 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

• The UK’s humanitarian aid cuts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/the-uks-humanitarian-aid-cuts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 There have been proposed cuts to the UK aid budget. For some background and reactions to the proposed cuts see these useful resources: The 0.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• International Women’s Day: some free statistics which show why it is necessary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/international-womens-day-some-free-statistics-which-show-why-it-is-necessary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Here are some free statistics which show why the fight for gender equality is necessary: The Office for National Statistics  records the current gender pay gap as 17.3% in 2019.

• HyPIR expert on space warfare shares insights on Trump’s Space Force

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/hypir-expert-on-space-warfare-shares-insights-on-trump2019s-space-force

  HyPIR expert on space warfare shares insights on Trump’s Space Force HyPIR expert on space warfare shares insights on Trump’s Space Force 500|Dr Bleddyn Bowen says that the US Space Force isn’t as new or dangerous as many think Dr Bleddyn Bowen (pictured), an expert on space...

• 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’.