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• Could LCFCs sporting success help kick racism into touch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/could-lcfcs-sporting-success-help-kick-racism-into-touch

  Leicester City Football Club’s phenomenal success becoming English Premier League Champions in one of Britain’s most diverse cities has ‘touched the lives’ of people from all walks of life – and could have a positive impact on tackling racism.

• 2015 was best ever year for tourism in Leicestershire

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2015-best-ever-year-for-tourism-for-leicestershire

  Leicester City's Premier League success and the ongoing 'Richard III effect' made 2015 the best year ever for tourism in Leicestershire. According to figures from Leicester Shire Promotions, visitors to the county injected nearly £1.

• Documentary highlights how humans created an artificial planet Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/documentary-highlights-how-humans-created-an-2018artificial2019-planet-earth

  The impact humans have had on planet Earth and how we have created an ‘artificial' planet will be explored in a new documentary by an award-winning journalist featuring Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology.

• Student duo strike gold at British Universities and Colleges Sport events

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/student-duo-strike-gold-at-british-universities-and-colleges-sport-events

  Two final year undergraduate students, Ryan Hunt and Lucy Hatton, have secured gold medals in their respective disciplines at two recent British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) events.

• Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues

  Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.

• Distributed and High-Performance AI Systems

  https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/groups/distributed-and-high-performance-ai-systems

  The Distributed AI Systems group provides theoretical and practical innovations in data intensive distributed systems (including clouds, HPC and quantum data centres), distributed machine learning models and self-adapting and physics informed digital twins to emulate the real...

• Zoo poo might hold the secrets to new medical treatments

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phages-dudley-zoo-poo

  Scientists at the University of Leicester are hoping the collection of poo from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other exotic animals, could contain the secret to finding new medical treatments.

• Future health technology needs to take into account children and young people’s preferences, say researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/health-technologies

  Health technology should be easy to use, have the ability to be personalised, allow the user to choose how their information is shared and where possible, have in-built games and incentives according to children and young people

• Room types

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/accommodation/room-types

  Find out about the different room types in our halls, from twin bedrooms to one-bedroom flats, including information on adapted rooms for disabled students.

• University of Leicester academics speak out following Hillsborough inquests verdicts

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/university-of-leicester-academics-speak-out-following-hillsborough-inquests2019-verdicts

  Two University academics have spoken out following the announcement of the verdicts from the Hillsborough disaster inquests.