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• Did you know? Food and Brazilian assertions of Africanness – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/21/did-you-know-food-and-brazilian-assertions-of-africanness/

  Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 21, 2015     In October 1972, Brazilian foreign minister Gibson Barbosa went on a month-long trip to nine West African countries in order to develop closer economic and political relations with black Africa.

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership rated Outstanding by UK Government

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/pj-care

  A research collaboration between the University of Leicester and a specialist neurological care and rehabilitation centre has been hailed as Outstanding by Innovate UK.

• Leicester scientist heads to Westminster

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-scientist-heads-to-westminster

  On Tuesday 13 March, PhD student at our University Katie Raymer will be attending Voice of the Future 2018- a unique event offering young scientists and engineers the opportunity to quiz key political figures at the Houses of Parliament about science policy.

• Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge

  As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.

• Research grant for study into nuclear weapons and cyber warfare

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/previous-research-projects/research-grant-for-study-into-nuclear-weapons-and-cyber-warfare

  Research will look into whether today’s nuclear weapons are safe from computer hacking, taking pace at The University of Leicester.

• The art of scientific glassblowing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/the-art-of-scientific-glassblowing

  Gayle Price, our talented glassblower, has been interviewed by the Wellcome Collection about the art of glassblowing and ways in which art and science connect in interesting ways.

• X-ray crystallography

  https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/about/facilities/x-ray-crystallography

  X-ray crystallography is a technique used to establish molecular structure by interpretation of diffraction data when a single crystal is placed in an X-ray beam. Find out about the diffractometer at the University of Leicester's Department of Chemistry.

• Watch speeches for Attenborough Arts gallery opening in full

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/watch-speeches-for-attenborough-arts-gallery-opening-in-full

  You can now watch the full speeches from the opening of Attenborough Arts’ new galleries wing, given by the centre Director Michaela Butter, President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Sir David Attenborough. Sir David officially opened the new £1.

• From the past to the future of work

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2025/02/04/from-the-past-to-the-future-of-work/

  Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2025 Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, University of Leicester School of Business.

• Students awarded further funding to develop innovative mobile app

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/museum-studies-master2019s-students-awarded-further-funding-to-develop-innovative-mobile-app

  A team from the University of Leicester has been announced as Summer of Student Innovation winners, bagging funding and support develop their edtech idea in collaboration with Jisc – a UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital...