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Space Park Leicester to host IP and funding workshop
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-ip-funding-workshop-770
60-minute session exploring how businesses in the space and technology sectors can leverage intellectual property (IP) and funding opportunities to accelerate growth, secure investment, and commercialise breakthrough ideas.
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Senate regulation 7: Regulations governing the assessment of taught programmes
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-7
Downloadable version of Senate Regulation 7 (PDF, 196KB) 7.1 These regulations apply to all taught programmes. Internal examining 7.2 For each programme of study there will be a Head of School responsible for the secure operation of assessment procedures and practices. 7.
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Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/author/ejl22/
Emma Battell Lowman is Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Hertfordshire and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History where she continues her postdoctoral research as a member of the Harnessing the Criminal...
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17m invested in Leicester to turn lab discoveries into new cancer drugs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/ps1-7m-invested-in-leicester-to-turn-lab-discoveries-into-new-cancer-drugs
Cancer Research UK has awarded the University £1.7 million through a new Centres Network Accelerator Award for research to crack the structure of molecules involved in cancer and to develop new drugs.
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Secrets of our ancient animal ancestors may be revealed through oldest DNA sequences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/secrets-of-our-ancient-animal-ancestors-may-be-revealed-through-oldest-dna-sequences
700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how they influenced modern species - including the sponge.
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Study into German prisoners of war in Leicester after Second World War
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/study-into-german-prisoners-of-war-in-leicester-after-second-world-war
Student Sue Bishop from the School of History is keen to hear from people with information about German prisoners of war who were held in Leicestershire camps during and after the Second World War for her third year undergraduate dissertation.
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Project to provide vital maths support for teenagers born very prematurely
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/making-sense-of-maths-vital-support-for-teenagers-born-very-prematurely
An award-winning research team led by Dr Samantha Johnson (pictured) from the Department of Health Sciences is developing a web-based e-learning programme to help teenagers who were born very prematurely with vital maths skills.
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MBA graduate named as Innovator of the Year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/mba-graduate-named-as-2018innovator-of-the-year2019
University of Leicester alumnus Marty Lampner, president and chief executive officer of Chimes, Inc. has been named as an Innovator of the Year by Maryland’s The Daily Record.
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Pregnancy expertise from across the world to collaborate on health opportunities in China
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/pregnancy-expertise-from-across-the-world-to-collaborate-on-health-opportunities-in-china
A new project that will twin the expertise of pregnancy and obstetrics researchers across the world with their counterparts in China has been announced with funding from the Chinese government.
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Join Jane Austen and zombie experts for pre-Halloween screening and panel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-pp-and-zombies
Experts on 19th century literature and the undead will come together for a pre-Halloween event at the University of Leicester on 29 October when the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies presents a free screening of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, followed by a discussion...