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• Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/corals-pinpoint-deforestation-borneo

  University of Leicester scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in environmental data on deforestation impacting coastal ecosystems

• To settle harsh environments, early humans needed friends – new findings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/harsh-environments-early-humans

  University of Leicester expertise helps to identify the oldest archaeological site in Lesotho, southern Africa and evidence of human occupation as early as 242,000 years ago

• Music as Communication

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ms3005

  Module code: MS3005 This module encourages you to question ideas around music, musicality, sound and meaning by examining how music functions within culture as a form of communication.

• Music as Communication

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ms3005

  Module code: MS3005 This module encourages you to question ideas around music, musicality, sound and meaning by examining how music functions within culture as a form of communication.

• Music as Communication

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ms3005

  Module code: MS3005 This module encourages you to question ideas around music, musicality, sound and meaning by examining how music functions within culture as a form of communication.

• Ground-breaking course will drive forward empathic healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/empathy-ground-breaking-healthcare-course

  A mission to put empathy at the heart of healthcare will get a huge boost from recognised authorities in evidence-based healthcare during a ground-breaking course taking place in Leicester

• Chemistry BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/chemistry-bsc/2026

  Discoveries in chemistry can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs in fields like health and medicine, energy and the environment, technology and materials – to name just a few.

• Winter Wonderland

  https://le.ac.uk/winter-wonderland

  Winter Wonderland festivities for our students and staff to celebrate the season

• Device and software development

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/projects/device-development

  We support the development of devices that assist in rapid and reliable diagnosis of diseases and conditions. A number of early stage projects have received pump prime funding (see below) to develop new devices.

• Observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe will carry instrumentation co-developed by our University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/james-webb-space-telescope-one-step-closer-to-launch-with-move-to-california

  An observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy, is one step closer to launch.