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Heartwize charity inspires Foxes’ first teamers to buy life-saving equipment for the community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-city-players-buy-defibrillators-heartwize
Leicester City’s first-team players have purchased life-saving equipment to support the work of a charity established by two cardiologists from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust.
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Ruth David (1929-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/ruth-david
Ruth’s last visit to the University of Leicester, 26 November 2019.|The David Wilson Library holds copies of Ruth's memoirs, A Child of Her Time, and of Lifelines, a volume of letters she and her parents exchanged before they were deported to Auschwitz.
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Adam Kay, Russell Kane and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock headline 2024 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/literary-leicester
Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester’s annual free literature festival, will return next month.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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French Post-beginners (Level 2)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/french/level-2
French course for post-beginners at Leicester University
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Arms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/arms/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Small Arms Data Observatory (SADO) launched A new website launched by an international consortium of researchers which will focus upon quantitative data .
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Emoji is the fastest growing language
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode and the launch of Emoj.li.
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Diagnostic Radiography BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/diagnostic-radiography-bsc/2026
The University of Leicester's Diagnostic Radiography degree is an accredited course leading to a career as a diagnostic radiographer
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Leicester diabetes professor awarded honorary degree
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/kamlesh-dundee
An internationally recognised diabetes professor from Leicester has been presented with an honorary degree from the university he graduated from as a doctor in 1984.
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John and Lucille van Geest biomarker facility
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/biomarker-facility
The John and Lucille van Geest Biomarker facility was established in 2013 thanks to a generous £2.5 million donation from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation.