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• College Court conference centre awarded Top Rated status

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/college-court-conference-centre-awarded-top-rated-status

  College Court, the University's conference Centre and hotel, has been honoured in the LateRooms.com Simply the Guest Awards 2016 by achieving the prestigious Top Rated status. The highly prized LateRooms.

• UK’s Chief Medical Officer's University of Leicester lecture addresses the state’s role in public health

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/chief-medical-officer-lecture-public-health

  Professor Chris Whitty gave the annual Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture on Friday 7 November

• Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star

  A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star detected to date.

• Pump Priming Awards

  https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/funding-opportunities/pump-priming-awards

  Yearly or Bi-yearly Pump Priming Awards linked to BHF Accelerator

• New Leicester research demonstrates the migrant work ethic exists in the short term

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/new-leicester-research-demonstrates-the-2018migrant-work-ethic2019-exists-in-the-short-term

  The received wisdom that migrant workers have a stronger ‘work ethic’ than UK-born workers is proven for the first time, in a new study of Central and East European migrants, from our School of Business.

• New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

  X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

• Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA)

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/about/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/edi-networks/women-in-economics-finance-and-accounting

  Women in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA) is an outreach initiative aiming to encourage and inspire women to consider a career in Economics, Finance and Accounting (WEFA).

• New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins

  A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.

• University of Leicester celebrates School of Education’s 75th anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/education

  University of Leicester’s School of Education has hit a landmark anniversary, celebrating its 75th year.  The School was founded in 1946, welcoming its first group of 19 students, most of whom were ex-military personnel.

• Alumnus shortlisted for top sci-fi writing prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/alumnus-shortlisted-for-top-sci-fi-writing-prize

  An alumnus and former staff member at the University is on the shortlist for one of world's most prestigious sci-fi writing prizes, the Philip K Dick Award.