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• Adding genetic information to health checks improves identification of people at risk of heart attacks and strokes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/samani

  University of Leicester researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events

• Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas

  Preliminary investigations took place in late 2021, with the ULAS team carefully uncovering more than 120 burials in the top-most layers on the site. The area was once used as the churchyard for burials of people from all walks of life living in the surrounding parish.

• AccessLeicester

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/post-16/progression-programmes/access-leicester

  Information for post-16 years on our Access Leicester progression programme at University of Leicester.

• The Irchester Field School

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach/the-irchester-field-school

  The Irchester Field School Leicestershire

• Re-discover Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/alumni/stay-connected/reconnect/visit

  Leicester is more than just the place you studied - it’s where friendships were formed, ideas took shape, and memories that still make you smile were made.

• Exploring the transient Universe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/exploring-the-transient-universe

  A novel mission - to understand how the Universe began and what it is made of – involves Professor Paul O'Brien from our Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• 10th November 2017 Sol 1871 – Scottish Quadrangle on Mars

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/11/10/10th-november-2017-sol-1871-scottish-quadrangle-on-mars/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 10, 2017 The field area for Curiosity along its traverse (currently nearly 18 km) is divided into a series of map qaudrangles. Each of these has outcrop and feature names based on a region of Earth e.g.

• From council estate to House of Lords – race equality campaigner is honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/simon-woolley

  A race equality campaigner who rose from humble beginnings on a Leicester council estate to sit in the House of Lords has been honoured by the University of Leicester.

• New board appointed to advise on future space innovation in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/space-advisory-board-innovation

  A new board has been created which will further strengthen Leicester’s pivotal role at the heart of UK space innovation. Leicester is one of the world’s most active cities for space research and has contributed to space exploration for more than six decades.

• Leicester engineers to stress test new technology to store waste heat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/energy-storage

  A Europe-wide project developing a new electrothermal energy storage system involves materials experts at the University of Leicester and will take advantage of phase change materials (PCMs) to efficiently store heat