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• Lord Willetts former Universities and Science Minister announced as Universitys new Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/lord-willetts-former-universities-and-science-minister-announced-as-universitys-new-chancellor

  The University has announced that former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, who is an honorary graduate of the University and delivered the inaugural Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, is to be installed as the new Chancellor of the University. The Rt Hon.

• Our speakers

  https://le.ac.uk/health-sciences/news/wpd2023/speakers

  Elaine Boyle Elaine is the LCFC Professor in Child Health and an Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. She leads the LCFC Programme of Research.

• Moon may have influenced Stonehenge builders says English Heritage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/moon-stonehenge

  Lunar standstill in 2024 offers rare opportunity to investigate. English Heritage teams up with leading astronomical experts in UK, including the University of Leicester, and USA

• Activist Museum Awards 2024 winners announced by Research Centre for Museums and Galleries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/activist-museum-2024

  Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has announced the winners of the prestigious Activist Museum Award 2024.

• Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/pollution

  Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary time each day, in a study published in the Journal of Public Health.

• UK First as new NHS study of digital ‘smart inhalers’ for children with asthma starts in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/asthma

  A new study, led by the University of Leicester, exploring the use of Smart Inhalers to prevent asthma flare-ups in children and young people has started in the city.

• Using collaboration as a catalyst for change in the research ecosystem: a blog from the VC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/talent-commission

  How do universities use collaboration as a catalyst for change in the research ecosystem? Professor Nishan Canagarajah, our President and Vice-Chancellor, and one of the commissioners of the UKRI-funded TALENT Commission, provides an opinion piece to the Higher Education...

• Public lecture series to celebrate 100 years of research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/difficult-conversations

  Brookfield is the new home of the University’s School of Business, situated in the historic Stoneygate Conservation Area.

• Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/landscape-decisions-net-zero

  The group do, however, recognise that “swift action is essential, otherwise we head deeper towards an inability to reach net zero carbon targets, contribute to biodiversity collapse and, promote societal disengagement with landscapes”.

• Time of day matters for breast cancer treatment: new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/chronoradiotherapy

  Risk of developing breast shrinkage (atrophy) after radiotherapy can be affected by the time of day the patient is treated and their genetics.