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  • Walking pace found to strongly predict risk of death

    A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults by University of Leicester experts has found that easy to collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk.

  • Applying for an MA

    Things to think about Check that you meet the admission requirements (many MA courses, including our programmes in English, require a First or 2.1 degree, or equivalent.

  • Research reveals solar storms trigger Jupiters Northern Lights

    Solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis, finds new research, involving the University of Leicester, using NASA’s...

  • Good cholesterol doesnt always lower heart attack risk

    Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are usually at lower heart disease risk.

  • The Marketplace of Life? The Political-Economy of Emergent Water Markets

    Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on December 4, 2013   The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying)   In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even...

  • Leicester – A Champions League City

    Posted by Martin Quinn in School of Business Blog on May 13, 2016   Martin Quinn discusses the urban policies and strategies which have made the city of Leicester so successful in recent years.

  • Pathways to Banking and Finance

    Pathways to Banking and Finance is a programme offered to post-16 students looking to study finance at university.

  • Alumni stars are recognised at glittering awards night in London

    The University of Leicester recognised its inspiring alumni for their achievements at a special awards evening held in London.

  • Facilities

    The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester occupies a recently-refurbished, modern, purpose-built laboratory space, furnished with up-to-date equipment for the latest molecular genetic methods.

  • Sydney Holloway

    We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.

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