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Heather Couper (1949-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/20-heather-couper
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest at the unveiling of the Rattray Lecture Theatre's astronomical clock in 1989.
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Prestigious Fellowship awarded to Leicester Mathematician
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/prestigious-fellowship-awarded-to-leicester-mathematician
Dr Sibylle Schroll from our Department of Mathematics has been awarded a prestigious £1 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Fellowship to realise her ambitious research program on 'Graphs in Representation Theory'.
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University to hold dedication event for new music-themed sculpture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-to-hold-dedication-event-for-new-music-themed-sculpture
A dedication event for a new sculpture is to be held on our University's new public communal square. The sculpture ‘Adagio’ will be officially revealed by artist Mr John Sydney Carter and its donor Dr Adrian Weston MBE in a ceremony on Friday 31st March.
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Work of women mathematicians at the University to be celebrated
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/work-of-women-mathematicians-at-the-university-to-be-celebrated
The rise in female actuaries, soap films, Brexit voting patterns and stick man drawings are the very diverse subjects under scrutiny in a series of talks by women mathematicians at our University.
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Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope
Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.
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2019 news
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/contemporary-environments/anthropocene-research-group/news/2019
2 November 2019 Climate Change and the City As part of the ESRC Social Science Festival, “Climate Change and the City” looked at the challenges posed to Cities and Citizens around consumption, production and the future of education.
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Is informal workplace learning always invisible?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/06/21/is-informal-workplace-learning-always-invisible/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on June 21, 2017 ULSB Research Associate and graduate Dr Kath Atkinson (kja16@le.ac.uk) reflects on a new report about older workers, and the assumptions it makes about their learning.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers high-altitude jet stream at Jupiter’s equator
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/jupiter-jet-streams
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team including University of Leicester scientists has discovered a never-before-seen feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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Inclusive curriculum FAQs
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-projects/learning-environment/inclusive-curriculum-toolkit/faqs
Part of Leicester Medical School's Racial Inclusion in the Curriculum Toolkit; frequently asked questions
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...