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• Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change

  Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times

• What Brexit could mean for the University sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/what-brexit-could-mean-for-the-university-sector

  Professor Iain Gillespie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Enterprise at our University, has commented on how UK universities and EU funding will be affected by Brexit - and the need for the government to provide answers.

• Psychology annual lecture to explore controversy surrounding cognitive neuroscience

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/psychology-annual-lecture-to-explore-controversy-surrounding-cognitive-neuroscience

  Controversy surrounding the extent to which detailed information about brain activity can enhance our understanding of ourselves and how we tick will be examined at the annual Sluckin Lecture on 3 May.

• Registering with the University

  https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-next-steps/register

  To officially become a University of Leicester student, you first need to complete your registration.

• Webb Fellowship awarded for the study of giant planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/webb-fellow

  An early-career planetary scientist has been awarded the third-ever Webb Fellowship and will study the atmospheres of giant planets using the James Webb Space Telescope.

• Five reasons why we need to look at childbirth and the media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/five-reasons-why-we-need-to-look-at-childbirth-and-the-media

  An academic from our University has discussed ways in which the media shapes society’s perceptions, anxieties and emotions arising out of birth.

• Swirlonic super particles baffle physicists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/swirlonic

  In recent years, active, self-propelled particles have received growing interest amongst the scientific community.  Examples of active particles and their systems are numerous and very diverse, ranging from bacterium films to flocks of birds or human crowds.

• Lopping the heads off daisies; at the heart of Enterprise.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/05/09/lopping-the-heads-off-daisies-at-the-heart-of-enterprise/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 9, 2019 Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that matters. Winston Churchill.

• Promising early results from new UK Type 2 diabetes prevention programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/promising-early-results-from-new-uk-type-2-diabetes-prevention-programme

  A programme aimed at preventing the development of Type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of the disease has achieved “promising” early results, a study has found.

• Chief Financial Officer

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/chief-financial-officer

  Find out more about our Chief Financial Officer