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Bestselling crime author to give University public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/bestselling-crime-author-to-give-university-public-lecture
Bestselling American crime author Patricia Cornwell (pictured) will give a free public lecture as part of the University of Leicester’s Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series and Literary Leicester festival 2016.
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A brace of Times Higher Education Awards nominations for Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/a-brace-of-times-higher-education-awards-nominations-for-leicester
The University of Leicester has been shortlisted in two categories for this year’s prestigious Times Higher Education Awards. Our work with the University of Kufa Medical School in Southern Iraq is up for the ‘International Impact Award’.
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Getting here
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/teachers/teacher-adviser-conference/getting-here
Information on how to travel to University of Leicester's Teacher Advisors conference on Friday 3 July 2026
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Dami Hastrup
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/alumni-newsletter/ulsb-edition-three-march-2023/dami-hastrup
Since graduating with a BA Business Economics in 2016, Dami founded MOONHUB, a virtual reality training platform with a fellow University of Leicester graduate. MOONHUB’s mission to us empower and equip trainees and provide cost-effective solutions to their partners.
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Babies born at the limits of viability
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/babies-viability
Only 1 in 500 babies are born before 24 weeks' of pregnancy however, they make up around a fifth of all baby deaths. This work aims to improve care for babies born at this extremely early stage of pregnancy particularly around consistent determination of signs of life
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PostWorld Cup blues Delve into the history of the beautiful game
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/post-world-cup-blues-delve-into-the-history-of-the-beautiful-game
If the World Cup final leaves football fans wanting more, then a free online course has the answer in the form of one of the beautiful game’s most unlikely success stories.
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Leicester Physicists at the UK in Space Festival
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/06/27/leicester-physicists-at-the-uk-in-space-festival/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 27 June 2023 From Mars, to Jupiter, and the planets beyond our solar system, University of Leicester researchers will join experts at the National Space Centre on July 2nd with their insights into our...
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Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons
An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere – suggesting that its mass approximates to an enormous 30 trillion tons.
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Leicester academic leads international research study into potential new biomarker for breast cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-of-leicester-academic-joins-international-research-study-into-potential-new-biomarker-for-breast-cancer
An academic from our University is leading an international collaborative research study, funded by Cancer Research UK, which uses recently launched technology to evaluate a potential new biomarker for prediction of disease progression in women with breast cancer.
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Anna-Sophie's dissertation
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/dissertations/anna-sophie
Read about Anna-Sophie’s dissertation, The Representation and Transformation of Lucretia from Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita in C16th Renaissance Paintings.