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Leicester chemist joins cohort of professionals providing insight to politicians
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/fabs-ortu-future-leader
Dr Fabrizio Ortu from the University of Leicester School of Chemistry is one of 35 new Foundation Future Leaders announced, which will see him discussing challenges and advances in science and technology with senior figures in Government and Parliament
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RIBA Stirling Prize winner tours Landmark Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/riba-stirling-prize-winner-tours-landmark-engineering-building
Renowned architect Alex de Rijke who received the UK's top architecture honour in 2017, the RIBA Stirling Prize, for the design of Hastings Pier toured the landmark Engineering Building.
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Leicester academic provides expert comment on Gosport hospital report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-academic-provides-expert-comment-on-gosport-hospital-report
Professor Richard Baker, Emeritus Professor from our Department of Health Sciences, featured extensively in the national media last week following the publication of the report of the Gosport Independent Panel.
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Performance to explore former Russian spy murder mystery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/performance-to-explore-former-russian-spy-murder-mystery
The public inquiry about the mysterious circumstances of Alexander Litvinenko’s death has begun eight years after the former Russian spy was poisoned with a cup of tea in London in 2006.
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Local children enjoy Making Money in new project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/local-children-enjoy-2018making-money2019
Hundreds of local children have been drawing their own £100 notes, and thousands of these brilliant designs will be on display in the Knoll House on 5 and 6 March, coinciding with the second of the Botanic Garden’s Crocus Sundays.
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New programme announced for UKs largest archaeology festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-programme-announced-for-uk2019s-largest-archaeology-festival
The programme for this year’s Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology, which is supported by the University of Leicester, has been announced.
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Approaches to nuclear warfighting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/approaches-to-nuclear-2018war-fighting2019
A new study by a University academic argues that current passive and static conceptualizations of Chinese approaches to nuclear and conventional deterrence are no longer appropriate.
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A change in Leicesters DNA Research Professional features new research institutes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/a-change-in-leicester2019s-dna-research-professional-features-new-research-institutes
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise Professor Iain Gillespie (pictured) have spoken to Research Professional about the University’s pioneering new research institutes.
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Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en2350
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Leicester professor judges space travel competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition
Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.