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• Breakthrough in lung cancer treatment is based on University of Leicester specialist’s 20 year old discovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dean-fennell

  A breakthrough in treatment for an aggressive fatal lung disease has been made thanks to a two decades’ old discovery by a University of Leicester cancer specialist.

• Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence

  Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.

• Bloomberg: Comparing Croatia’s Economic Forecasts With the Euro

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/08/bloomberg-comparing-croatias-economic-forecasts-with-the-euro/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2013 Croatia became the European Union’s 28th member on July 1st.

• Attenborough Arts to host British artist’s largest solo exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/11-aaron-williamson-attenborough-arts

  A new exhibition of the work of renowned British artist Aaron Williamson opens at the University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre on Saturday 11 May 2019.

• University of Leicester named as one of the world’s most sustainable universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/17-worlds-most-sustainable-university-ui-greenmetric

  UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2018 places the University of Leicester 35th in the world and 9th in the UK for sustainability.

• The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/04/the-impact-of-online-misinformation-on-u-s-covid-19-vaccinations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2021 Paper from arxiv with the following findings: consistently, negative opinions toward vaccines are correlated with misinformation.

• Arctic rocket launch could uncover unique features of Earth’s life-sustaining atmosphere

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/endurance-launch

  Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and PI for the Endurance mission said: “It’s one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it’s what Endurance is after.

• Women’s experiences of lockdown make up House of Commons exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/lockdown-women

  A virtual exhibition that highlights the experiences of women during the pandemic launches at the House of Commons this week. Lockdown House is a collaborative project between University of Leicester, University of Lincoln and Robert Gordon University.

• Learning outcomes in higher education: what’s being blogged – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/02/18/loblogs/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. What's being blogged about learning outcomes in higher education?

• Leicester’s Dr Hannah Young is the 2025 Donna Lamping Award Recipient

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/kidney-association-award-leicester

  Dr Hannah Young, Specialist Research Physiotherapist at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, is the recipient of the UK Kidney Association's 2025 Donna Lamping MDT Researcher Award.