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• AI scientists spark interest at largest school-based STEM fair

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/bright-sparks

  The DriverLeics team was among exhibitors at the Bright Sparks STEM Fair, demonstrating an interactive robot dog, an AI system that identifies objects in people's hands, and two self-driving cars to demystify the concept of autonomous vehicles.

• Josh creates Mission Bake showstopper to mark the 55th anniversary of moon landing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/apollo

  In a spectacular fusion of culinary art and space exploration, Great British Bake Off star Josh Smalley has teamed up with the National Space Centre in Leicester to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

• School children ‘Ask the Astronaut’ with University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/tim-peake-aac-schools

  School children had the chance to submit their questions through the ‘Little Inventors in Space’ programme, led by the Attenborough Arts Centre in partnership with Little Inventors and Inspirate.

• Leicester celebrates Knowledge Exchange Framework success

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/knowledge-exchange-framework

  The University of Leicester’s position as a leading research institution that drives innovation and growth in its local area has been recognised by Research England (RE), after the release of this year’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) results.

• Professor Phil Baker named as new Executive Management Group Chair for Midlands Innovation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/phil-baker-midlands-innovation

  Midlands Innovation has announced that Professor Philip Baker, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, is to take on the position of Chair of its Executive Management Group.

• Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2

  New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...

• Leicester joins British Academy’s first regional Early Career Researcher Network

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/early-career-researcher-network

  The University of Leicester has today (Thursday) announced that it has joined the British Academy’s first regional Early Career Researcher Network – a pilot programme aimed at UK-based postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

• Space Park Leicester expert called to UN Space Affairs meeting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/space-park-leicester-united-nations-presentation

  A leading expert from Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s pioneering space research, innovation and teaching cluster, has been invited to deliver “world-leading” research to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

• €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

  Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

• Dutch Post-beginners (Level 2)

  https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/dutch/level-2

  Dutch course for post-beginners at Leicester University