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• Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

  A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

• Study shows large gender imbalance in funding given for cancer research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/study-shows-large-gender-imbalance-in-funding-given-for-cancer-research

  Male researchers receive far greater funding for cancer research than their female equivalents, suggests a study involving University of Leicester research and published in the journal BMJ Open.

• Study reveals mysteries of enzyme mechanism

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/study-reveals-mysteries-of-enzyme-mechanism

  An international research team led by our University has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate in the mechanism of enzymes called heme peroxidases and determining its structure using a beam of neutrons from the heart of a nuclear reactor.

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/dickens-code/events

  Find out more about the events being held by us at the University of Leicester or events being held at other Universities or institutions.

• Jurassic calamari: amazing fossil proves that flying reptiles preyed on squid

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/27-pterosaur-vs-squid

  Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, flying close to the water surface to grab soft-bodied cephalopods such as Plesioteuthis subovata. Artwork by C Klug and Beat Scheffold.|An incredible fossil brought to light in a new research paper reveals the feeding habits of extinct flying reptiles.

• Activities and events

  https://le.ac.uk/wordsworth-2020/events

  Find out about past events and future events for the Wordsworth 2020 AHRC funded project for English research at Leicester.

• New portrait of Sir David Attenborough revealed in city

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-portrait-of-sir-david-attenborough-revealed-in-city

  A stunning new portrait of Leicester honorary graduate and Distinguished Honorary Fellow Sir David Attenborough at Leicester’s New Walk Museum has been revealed by the man himself.

• Senate regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2018/19 to 2024/25)

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2018-2025-study

  Read Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2018/19 to 2024/25).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/149/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Local research study contributes to global findings which pinpoint genes for depression across ethnicities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/exceed

  A University of Leicester study has contributed to the world’s largest and most diverse genetic study ever into major depression, helping to reveal nearly 300 previously unknown genetic links to the condition