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Space Technologies to help protect communities and the environment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/space-technologies-to-help-protect-communities-and-the-environment-1
Multi-million pound funding for world-class research at our University, to use space technologies to help herders in Mongolia and monitor tropical forests in SE Asia, has been announced by Science Minister Sam Gyimah.
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Prestigious accolade for health inequalities team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/kamlesh-ethnic-minority-national-award
A team including representatives from the University of Leicester working to tackle health inequalities for ethnic minority groups has won a national award
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Laser-firing spacecraft lauded by Leicester Director
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/laser-firing-spacecraft-lauded-by-leicester-director
Professor John Remedios, Head and Professor of Earth Observation Science and head of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at our University has been involved in an event for a new European Space Agency instrument.
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Breast cancer research scoops international award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/breast-cancer-award
Research by a University of Leicester PhD student into the side effects of breast cancer treatment have been internationally recognised
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Review outlines methods to estimate life expectancy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/life-expectancy
Five key methods have been explored by Leicester researchers to calculate life expectancy and the life years lost due to disease and illness.
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Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality
Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”.
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International type 2 diabetes prevention drive suggested by COVID-19 review
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/diabetes-covid
An international drive to highlight to the importance of prevention of diabetes has been proposed following a review in the wake of the pandemic.
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Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging
Dr Eric Guiry is Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study, which focused on two locations close to Yuquot, Canada, and compared findings to sites in the USA, Russia and Japan.
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Stephen Hawking tributes to one of the greatest minds in science
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/stephen-hawking-tributes-to-one-of-the-greatest-minds-in-science
The University has paid tribute to one of the greatest minds in science and honorary graduate Professor Stephen Hawking on the news of his death. The University of Cambridge announced the sad news on 14 March.
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Leicester to benefit from NERC funding for Central England training centre programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-central-england-training-centre-programme
NERC pledges £100M for postgraduate training – University of Leicester to benefit from Central England training centre programme