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• Diabetes 'tidal wave' imminent for young people, says global expert

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/diabetes-tidal-wave-young-people-report-melanie-davies

  The increased time young people are spending on digital channels, such as TV subscription services and gaming, is creating a new culture of “sedentary children”, with a leading professor calling for urgent action to “change mindsets” on diabetes following the publication of a...

• Sociology student awarded UN internship in Indonesia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/sociology-student-awarded-un-internship-in-indonesia

  Student Cindy Colondam, who is due to start her second year studying Sociology, has been working as an intern for the United Nations (UN) as part of their UN Global Pulse initiative in Jakarta, Indonesia over the summer.

• Novel analysis technique helps Leicester researchers to solve Beagle 2 mystery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/novel-analysis-technique-helps-leicester-researchers-to-solve-beagle-2-mystery

  Scientists in Leicester have moved one step closer to understanding exactly what happened to the ill-fated Mars Lander Beagle 2, thanks to an innovative research technique.

• The Clink restaurant at HMP Brixton: fine dining and prison education

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/07/21/the-clink-restaurant-at-hmp-brixton-fine-dining-and-prison-education/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 21, 2014 By Sarah Longair, Carceral Archipelago Project Researcher.

• Free public event explores the 1911 ‘All India’ cricket tour of England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/30-cricket-event

  A fascinating chapter in cricket history will be explored at a free public event on Tuesday 1 October when Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor of colonial urban history, discusses the first ever Indian tour of England in 1911.

• Cutting-edge telescope built at University of Leicester makes final departure to join SMILE mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/smile

  The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), led by University of Leicester scientists, has been completed and delivered for integration into the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) spacecraft.

• Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the ageing process

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/wasp-aging-leicester-biological

  Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered that jewel wasps can slow down their biological rate of ageing

• Student research stories featured by the BBC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/student-research-stories-featured-by-the-bbc

  Two student-led studies published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have been featured on the BBC's '10 things we didn't know last week', which highlights research about interesting and...

• The happy ending to the story of ambitious project to refurbish iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/the-2018happy-ending2019-to-the-story-of-ambitious-project-to-refurbish-iconic-engineering-building

  The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.

• Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published

  Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid.