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• Sir David and Michael Attenborough officially open Centenary Square

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/14-sir-david-attenborough-officially-opens-centenary-square

  On Sunday 11 November 2018, hundreds of students, staff, alumni and members of the community joined Sir David Attenborough and his nephew Michael Attenborough on campus to pay their respects to those from Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who made sacrifices during the...

• What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles

  But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.

• Ten creative commissions

  https://le.ac.uk/colonial-countryside/about/creative-commissions

  The Colonial Countryside project has a partnership with Peepal Tree Press who have commissioned ten writers to write about each participating house in the project. Learn more about the commissioned writers and houses.

• Leicester scientists help to drive technological revolution in developing electric vehicles

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientists-help-to-drive-technological-revolution-in-developing-electric-vehicles

  Two academics from our University are part of a consortium that has received over £9 million for a project that will determine the ways in which spent lithium batteries can be recycled.

• The lives and letters of the poor in the nineteenth century

  https://le.ac.uk/own-write/lives-and-letters

  Pauper letters are helping historians write a new ‘history from below' by giving a voice to the ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.

• Programme

  https://le.ac.uk/engineering-the-past/programme

  8.30am-9.00am Registration and Refreshments 9.00am-9.05am Welcome/Induction 9.05am-9.15am Opening Remarks by Professor Richard Thomas 9.15am-10.00am Introductory Keynote: Professor Ian Haynes Engineering and the future of the past: Perspectives from Rome Transformed. 10.00am-10.

• Leicester scientists identify novel approach to treat and prevent global health threat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-scientists-identify-novel-approach-to-treat-and-prevent-global-health-threat

  Leicester scientists have previously identified the potential of using a bacteriophage cocktail to eradicate Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and in this research, using an insect model, they show that their prophylactic use can prevent infection forming in the first...

• Study into asthma provides a paradigm shift in understanding of lifethreatening condition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/study-into-asthma-provides-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-of-life-threatening-condition

  A new study led by our University to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding, with the discovery being described as a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding the life-threatening condition.

• Head of British Army to give public talk

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/head-of-british-army-to-give-public-talk

  The head of the British Army General Sir Nicholas Carter is to deliver a keynote lecture at our University on Wednesday 20 July 2016 from 1.45pm-3pm in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Centre for Medicine, 15 Lancaster Road.

• Staff wellbeing is central to NHS Workforce Plan’s success

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/health

  More needs to be done to tackle staff wellbeing if the government’s NHS Workforce Long Term Plan is to be a success, says a University of Leicester academic.