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• Local schoolchildren to learn about Richard III discovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/local-schoolchildren-to-learn-about-richard-iii-discovery-at-home-of-dna-fingerprinting

  For the third year running Leicester schoolchildren will learn the scientific and archaeological skills used to uncover King Richard III at a series of workshop days starting on Monday 23 February 2015.

• New £10.4 million research centre will unlock new tests, treatments and cures for people living with rare kidney diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/lifearc

  Thousands of people living with rare kidney disease will have access to improved diagnostics, treatments and potentially cures, thanks to the creation of a new research centre, involving experts from the University of Leicester

• Tackling trauma in the classroom

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/09-tackling-trauma

  Breaking Barriers. Refugee Week. 12-17 November 2018. 900|University of Leicester shines light on supporting refugees The University of Leicester is devoting a week to highlighting initiatives that support refugees and to celebrate their contribution to Leicester life.

• Leicester mathematician takes his research to Parliament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/22-mathematician-research-parliament

  Nicholas Williams, a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester, attended Parliament to present his mathematics research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges as part of STEM for Britain on Wednesday 13 March 2019.

• Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts in panel debate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/former-universities-and-science-minister-david-willetts-in-panel-debate

  Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, who is an honorary graduate of our University and delivered the inaugural Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, is to return to campus to celebrate the official launch of his latest book, A University Education.

• Mahendra Chouhan

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/mahendra-chouhan

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mahendra Chouhan, a member of the cleaning staff at Space Park Leicester, who passed away on 16 February 2024.

• University of Leicester create a book honouring Centenary donors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/golden-book

  A book commemorating hundreds of University donors has been commissioned to mark the University of Leicester’s centenary.

• New Years Honours University links

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-years-honours-university-links

  Members of our University have again been recognised in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered genetic fingerprinting at this University, has been has been appointed as a Companion of Honour (CH).

• The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/baseball-cap

  Read the article The baseball cap: a symbol of pathological consumption? This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• NGTS discovers an extremely small star in an eclipsing binary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/09/01/ngts-discovers-an-extremely-small-star-in-an-eclipsing-binary/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 September 2020 Leicester PhD student Jack Acton discusses his latest discovery, a record breaking eclipsing binary system found in data from the NGTS exoplanet survey.