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• New insight into frictionless surfaces is slippery slope to energy-efficient technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/superlubricity-friction

  Scientists led by the University of Leicester have made an insight into superlubricity, revealing that friction is reduced further at lower temperatures

• Collection development strategy 2022 - 2031

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/collection-development-strategy

  university library's 10 year collection development strategy including key priorities, kpi's, context and categorisation of collections

• Midwifery academic wins regional award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/midwifery

  Dr Helen McIntyre has won a regional award for embedding best practice in infant feeding within midwifery education to improve maternal and infant health

• UKs largest ever investment into groundbreaking health research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/uk2019s-largest-ever-investment-into-ground-breaking-health-research

  Leicester’s hospitals and the Universities of Leicester and Loughborough are set to receive funding of £11m from the Government to make world-leading medical breakthroughs, as part of a record package of research funding announced today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

• Queen's Anniversary Prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/queen-elizabeth-ii/queens-anniversary-prizes

  Celebrate the excellence with three special projects to have received royal recognition

• Rise for Leicester to 35th in latest Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/times-rankings

  The University of Leicester is on the rise in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, which has ranked the University 35th amongst UK Higher Education institutions.

• Leicester geologist to present rock-licking trick for Hallowe’en treat at Royal Institution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/geologist-rock-licking-halloween-royal-institution

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz joins panel at the Royal Institution on 31 October with other winners of Ig Nobel Prizes to explain their winning work for a public audience

• Leicester scientist lends expertise to new Jack the Ripper book

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-scientist-lends-expertise-to-new-jack-the-ripper-book

  Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell is due to release Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert on 28 February, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.

• Genetic switch discovery could help to prevent symptoms of Parkinsons disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/genetic-switch-discovery-could-help-to-prevent-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease

  A genetic ‘switch’ has been discovered by MRC researchers at our University which could help to prevent or delay the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

• Rum rocks to play a key role in Mars space mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/rum-rocks-mars

  Space scientist Professor John Bridges from the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester have been collecting samples of rock from the NatureScot National Nature Reserve for the Mars Sample Return Campaign.