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• Student from School of Business wins Presidents Prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/student-from-school-of-business-wins-president2019s-prize

  A University of Leicester student has won the President’s Prize in a national competition designed to show what it takes to be future business leaders.

• Experts suggest Pokémon Go could ease Type 2 diabetes burden

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/2018pokemon-go-could-ease-type-2-diabetes-burden2019-says-expert

  Hundreds of students and staff around the University and city have caught Poké-fever, joining millions of people worldwide in playing viral mobile app Pokémon Go - a virtual reality treasure hunt where players walk to places in the real world to...

• November Digest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/08/november-digest/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 December 2020 As the end of 2020 draws near, we’d like to share some of the stories from the Physics and Astronomy Community from the past month.

• Staff Blog Profiles University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/staff-blog-profiles/

  Staff blogging about the University of Leicester, one of the UK best universities.

• Improving air quality in Nairobi

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/air-quality-nairobi

  Poor urban air quality is a major development issue globally, placing a huge burden on public health.

• Scientist behind life-saving cancer research returns to Leicester for honorary award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/scientist-behind-life-saving-cancer-research-leicester-honorary-award

  Award-winning scientist Dr Angela Coxon has returned to her old university in Leicester to receive an honorary title.

• Astronaut reveals challenges of human spaceflight in exciting workshop

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/astronaut-challenges-human-spaceflight-workshop

  Dr Franco Malerba spoke to Physics students from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy for a Human Spaceflight Workshop at Space Park Leicester

• Compensation policy

  https://le.ac.uk/study/accommodation/policies-and-procedures/compensation-policy

  Information on university of Leicester accommodation compensation policy

• How the enclosure of common land sparked riots revolts and resistance in the Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/how-the-enclosure-of-common-land-sparked-riots-revolts-and-resistance-in-the-midlands

  A series of riots by angry farmers opposing the enclosure of common land in the Midlands in 1607 will be the subject of this year’s Hoskins Lecture on 5 May.

• New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/new-online-app-for-reporting-sexual-violence-in-brazil/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are...