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• University of Leicester space scientists celebrate success for Gaia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/university-of-leicester-space-scientists-celebrate-success-for-gaia

  University of Leicester space scientists are celebrating success after the Gaia project, which aims to create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy, picked up two prestigious awards for best Space Achievement and best Space Industry/Project Team.

• Call for guidance after BAME COVID-19 death figures released

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/call-for-guidance

  Urgent guidance on how the NHS will seek to minimise risk to those people from BAME backgrounds who are receiving care and serving on the frontline is being called for, in response to new figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) today.

• New website launched to explore the full healthy life in Australia for migrants from the UK and Europe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/new-website-launched-to-explore-the-2018full-healthy-life2019-in-australia-for-migrants-from-the-uk-and-europe

  Between 1945 and 1975 some three million migrants and refugees arrived in Australia from Britain and Europe. Chosen to be young, strong and healthy workers, they were expected to rapidly integrate and ‘become good Australians by adoption’.

• Schoolchildren to create bags to hold bones of Richard III

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/school-children-to-create-bags-to-hold-bones-of-richard-iii

  Pupils at King Richard III Infant School are playing an historic part in the reinterment of Richard III by creating special bags that will hold small bones - such as those from his hands - which will then be laid inside the coffin.

• Transformative plan to pioneer a distinctive elite in higher education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/transformative-plan-to-pioneer-a-distinctive-elite-in-higher-education

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has unveiled a transformative plan to create a university that represents a ‘distinctive elite’ in the higher education sector.

• Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/perinatal-loss-infancy-death-leicester

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the University of Leicester’s TIMMS research group, has today published a ‘State of the Nation’ report on perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2023.

• University of Leicester supports postgrad researchers facing cost of living rise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/stipend-increase

  Postgraduate researchers at the University of Leicester will receive a welcome boost in the face of rises in the cost of living.

• Public lecture to explore genocide and reconciliation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/genocide-and-reconciliation

  Genocide and reconciliation are subjects to be explored at an event on Thursday 2 March.

• Community event raises awareness of prostate cancers silent symptoms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/community-event-raises-awareness-of-prostate-cancers-silent-symptoms

  A Leicester health campaigner has called for men to get checked out for prostate cancer because of its “silent symptoms” – after a high-profile journalist was diagnosed with the condition.

• An out-of-this-world experience

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/an-out-of-this-world-experience

  Leicester's British Science week celebrations launched on Friday, and are now in full swing. The week started with a special event in the Cathedral where a giant, inflatable, detailed replica of the Moon was set up.