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Looking at War Memorials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/05/07/looking-at-war-memorials/
Posted by Elizabeth Blood in Library Special Collections on May 7, 2020 In October-November 2019, Archives & Special Collections featured an exhibition in the cases outside our reading room, entitled Looking at War Memorials .
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New project to help tailor cancer treatments for individual patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/new-project-to-help-tailor-cancer-treatments-for-individual-patients
A new project led by Dr Julian Barwell (pictured) from the Department of Genetics hopes to help move the treatment of human disease from a 'one size fits all' approach to one of tailoring treatment to individual patients.
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Improvement Science Fellowship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2017/02/14/improvement-sci-fellowship/
SAPPHIRE’s Natalie Armstrong has recently been awarded a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship, in this blog she reflects on her experiences so far and what she’ll be getting up to over the next three years.
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A festive flying pterosaur family reunion 150 million years in the making
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/pterosaur-reunion
University of Leicester study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur
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Silence at the University of Tokyo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/silence-at-the-university-of-tokyo
Dr Jim King from the School of Education will be giving a talk to the Tokyo Discourse Group at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo Campus from 18.30 to 20.00 on Thursday 21 April.
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New research finds singing at work reduces stress and loneliness
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/15-singing-work-reduces-stress-loneliness
New research led by Dr Catherine Steele and Joanna Foster from our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has revealed that belting out a tune in a choir at work can help to reduce workplace stress and feelings of social isolation.
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Space firm behind pioneering ‘shoebox-sized laboratory’ comes to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/frontier-shoebox-laboratory
Frontier Space Technologies is the latest company on the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s pioneering £100 million science and innovation park
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Urine test is breakthrough for high blood pressure patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/urine-test-is-breakthrough-for-high-blood-pressure-patients
A research team including Leicester scientists has shown that a urine test leads to a drop in blood pressure in patients who had been struggling to regularly take their blood pressure lowering tablets.
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Discover how miniature space explorers are shaping the future of space travel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/miniature-explorers-future-space-travel
In Conversation with Vix Southgate of the British Interplanetary Society – Small Steps and Giant Leaps: From Fruit Flies to the Moon, will take place at 1pm on Thursday 23 July at Space Park Leicester
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Exploring medieval culture and art
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/saxon-sculpture
Professor Joanna Story explores early medieval culture and art through well-travelled manuscripts from scholars and scribes of the time.