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• Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon

  An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.

• British space community comes to Leicester for major conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/bpsc-2024-post-conference

  The largest British Planetary Science Conference to date welcomes 200 space experts at Space Park Leicester, University of Leicester and the National Space Centre

• Geneticist roped into abseiling challenge for charity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/geneticist-roped-into-abseiling-challenge-for-charity

  Many people climb new heights for charity, but one of our geneticists will be descending instead, very carefully, down a sheer drop to support his cause.

• If you don’t know where you’re going you’ll end up somewhere else

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/11/03/if-you-dont-know-where-youre-going-youll-end-up-somewhere-else/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on November 3, 2016 When I was growing up in a small farming community in the west of Ireland there weren’t many options for a teenager on a Saturday night.

• Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award honour for Dr Suzie Imber

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/suzie-imber-rosalind-franklin

  Dr Suzanne (Suzie) Imber, Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester has been named as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2021.

• Over £600,000 for University of Leicester to shrink AI algorithms for smarter spacecraft

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/shrinking-ai-spacecraft

  Multidisciplinary team from University of Leicester receives £690,000 funding from UK Space Agency and aims to develop and demonstrate streamlined machine learning algorithms suitable for limited spacecraft power and computing performance

• SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch): Academic and staff blogs from

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• BRC Director chosen to receive international outstanding achievement award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/diabetes-ada-award-melanie-davies

  Director of the NIHR Leicester BRC, Professor Melanie Davies CBE, has been chosen to receive a 2025 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

• 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.