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• Industry and academia partners to join European research initiative to fight Alzheimers dementia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/industry-and-academia-partners-to-join-european-research-initiative-to-fight-alzheimers-dementia

  An alliance of academia and industry, including the University of Leicester, has announced the start of a novel collaboration, the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (EPAD) Initiative, to test innovative treatments for the prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia.

• The destruction of Old St Paul’s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...

• Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant

  Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.

• From outer space to Barbie dolls – Leicester delegation touches down in LA

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/usa

  Barbie dolls, outer space and education partnerships were just some of the areas a University of Leicester delegation explored on a trip to Los Angeles.

• Leicester athlete Nick Cummins set to compete in Wheelchair Rugby World Championships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-athlete-nick-cummins-set-to-compete-in-wheelchair-rugby-world-championships

  Talented Leicester athlete Nick Cummins is set to tackle the competition in the Wheelchair Rugby World Championships, taking place in Sydney, Australia between 5 – 10 August.

• Public event to reveal how magic can be used to study the brain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/public-event-to-reveal-how-magic-can-be-used-to-study-the-brain

  Have you ever wondered how scientists explore the brain, or what goes wrong during a stroke or in dementia? If so, the University is partnering with the DANA Foundation for the third year to celebrate Brain Awareness Week (BAW) with a free public event on Wednesday 18 March...

• Research suggests people who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/research-suggests-people-who-want-to-prevent-immigration-to-the-uk-are-less-happy-than-those-who-welcome-it

  People who want to stop further immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it, and politicians are part of the reason for this, new research shows.

• Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology to bring our past to life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/festival-of-leicestershire-and-rutland-archaeology-to-bring-our-past-to-life

  Members of the public are invited to help bring our past to life by taking part in the UK’s largest archaeology festival and this year’s event promises to be bigger and better than before.

• £2m study - ethnicity and COVID-19 in healthcare workers

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-uk-reach

  UK-REACH will investigate data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority healthcare works.

• Surviving results day: Clearing, confidence, and finding the right fit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/surviving-results-day-clearing-confidence-finding-right-fit

  As thousands of people around the country await their A-level grades, the University of Leicester’s Head of UK Student Recruitment, Dan Flatt, explains the ins and outs of surviving results day.