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• Medical students meet best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/medical-students-benji-waterhouse-leicester

  It’s not every day you get to meet a best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist, but that's what Medical with Foundation Year Students at the University of Leicester did.

• Leicester PhD student one of UKs top conservationists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-phd-student-in-uks-top-50-conservationists-list

  Tim Mackrill (pictured left), a PhD student in our Department of Genetics and Senior reserve officer of the Rutland Osprey Project, has featured at number 34 in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's top 50 conservation heroes in the UK.

• Supporting individuals to speak out

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-projects/speaking-out

  A summary of MedRACE projects that support students to speak out about inequalities and issues of inclusion, racism or discrimination.

• Midlands Innovation announces plans for technology transfer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/midlands-innovation-announces-plans-for-technology-transfer

  Midlands Innovation, a group of eight universities and one of the UK’s most influential academic collaborations, has launched its plan for collaboration in technology transfer. The announcement was made at an event held at The Shard, London.

• Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate

  A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• Leicester scientists set to visit schools as part of a mobile science lab designed to spark students’ interest in STEM subjects

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/curiosity-cube

  A traveling mobile science lab developed and created by science and technology company Merck, is set to spark the interest of Leicestershire’s young people when it comes to visit

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.

• Female UK legal trailblazer congratulates Leicester law students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/women-in-law

  A trailblazing senior legal figure has sent her congratulations to University of Leicester students for setting up a Women in Law Society.

• Praise for University’s COVID-19 response

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/hebcon-contribution-award

  The University of Leicester has been recognised with a national award for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Leicester invests in next generation of world-changing research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/100-phd

  The University of Leicester has today (Thursday) announced a multimillion pound investment in the world-changing researchers of tomorrow.