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• New anthology Unstitching Silence brings together Caribbean voices to address gender-based violence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/unstitching-silence

  A new anthology featuring writing from Caribbean writers has been edited by University of Leicester's Dr Lucy Evans and Shivanee Ramlochan.

• Increased activity during the summer caused by genes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/increased-activity-during-the-summer-caused-by-genes

  The warm temperature on a summer’s day is often a time for relaxing, but researchers from the Department of Genetics have suggested that a ‘thermosensory’ gene could be responsible for changes in behaviour in different climates.

• Frederick and Mary Attenborough

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/frederick-and-mary

  Frederick was our second Principal and under his leadership it expanded rapidly. He, and his wife Mary, lived on the campus with their sons Richard, David and John.

• Study reveals mysteries of enzyme mechanism

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/study-reveals-mysteries-of-enzyme-mechanism

  An international research team led by our University has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate in the mechanism of enzymes called heme peroxidases and determining its structure using a beam of neutrons from the heart of a nuclear reactor.

• Protests against Trump in Britain may well signal the beginning of a new wave of AntiBrexit mobilisation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/201cprotests-against-trump-in-britain-may-well-signal-the-beginning-of-a-new-wave-of-anti-brexit-mobilisation201d

  Dr Fabian Frenzel (pictured), from the University of Leicester’s School of Business, has suggested that the recent protests against President Trump’s travel ban, seen across the UK, could signal a new wave of Anti-Brexit mobilisation.

• New cave discoveries shed light on Native and European religious encounters in the Americas

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-cave-discoveries-shed-light-on-native-and-european-religious-encounters-in-the-americas

  A project led by archaeologists from the British Museum and our University has discovered remarkable evidence which shows how the first generations of Europeans to arrive in the Americas engaged with indigenous peoples and their spiritual beliefs deep inside the caves of a...

• Bill Grant

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/bill-grant

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Professor William (Bill) Grant, Emeritus Professor in the former Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation.

• Migrant status compounds inequality for ethnic minority NHS staff, new study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ethnic-minority-healthcare-workers

  Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research by University of Leicester experts.

• Space Park Leicester to bring space back down to Earth at national conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-national-conference

  Cutting-edge work of University of Leicester’s science park to be showcased from 16-17 July, including an early prototype of the Double Walled Isolator: a miniature laboratory for returned extraterrestrial samples

• Expert opinions cover enabling characteristics of cancer Euroscepticism in Poland and Leicester Citys miracle win

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/expert-opinions-cover-enabling-characteristics-of-cancer

  PhD student Mohan Harihar from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing the properties that help make it easier for cells to acquire the ‘hallmarks of cancer’ that promote tumour development.