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Professor Alice Roberts digs University of Leicester’s fascinating finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/honorand-alice-roberts
One of Britain’s best-known broadcasters, Professor Alice Roberts, has endorsed the University of Leicester’s exemplary track record for unearthing some of the nation’s most treasured historical finds.
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Leicester Heroes event aims to recruit hundreds of new potential stem cell donors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-heroes-event-aims-to-recruit-hundreds-of-new-potential-stem-cell-donors
Our University has once again teamed up with The Rik Basra Leukaemia Campaign to host an event on Monday 30 October which aims to recruit hundreds of new potential donors to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register.
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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health
A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists
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Zeiss Elyra 7 lattice SIM2
https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/aif/equipment/superresolution-microscopy/zeiss-elyra-7-lattice-sim2
In spring 2024 we introduced the Zeiss Elyra 7 lattice SIM2 into the facility after a successful application to the BBSRC ALERT 2022, lead by Dr Yolanda Markaki.
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Leicester’s Multilingual History Walks (at Christmas)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/events/leicester-history-walk
Learn more about Languages at Leicester’s History Walks in 6 languages.
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PSE: UK Poverty and social exclusion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/17/pse-uk-poverty-and-social-exclusion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2012 http://www.poverty.ac.uk/ has just been re-launched, with a host of new features to improve access to the project data and findings.
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The Queens 90th University reflections
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/queens-90th-university-reflections
To mark the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, we take a trip down memory lane to remember her visits to the University of Leicester.
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Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/
Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)
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Celebrating Leicester’s live music heritage as Radio 2 comes to town
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/gigs
While some of pop’s biggest names will be descending on Leicester this weekend for Radio 2 In The Park, it’s not the first time some of them have graced a stage within the LE1 postcode.