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Archive of past events and conferences
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/news/past-events
Browse our archive of past events and conferences in the Centre for English Local History at Leicester, with records spanning back to 2008.
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University of Leicester economics student makes history with rowing Gold
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/lauren-henry-gold
Economics student Lauren Henry wins Gold at the Games in Paris
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Heartwize
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/csr/heartwize
A new generation of lifesavers is emerging thanks to a unique and original resuscitation training programme spearheaded by the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
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Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/csr/botanic-garden
Our Botanic Garden in Oadby is a major, and very visible, element of our community engagement.
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University launches new centre for cardiovascular research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/leicester-cardiovascular-research-bhf
A new multi-million pound centre to turbocharge cardiovascular research has opened at the University of Leicester.
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Subject Discovery Sessions
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/pre-16/subject-discovery-sessions
We also offer a number of subject discovery sessions enabling your learners to explore the range of subjects they could study at university from their classroom. All of our subject discovery sessions are available to book as 45-60 minutes workshops with a maximum of 30 students.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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General Engineering BEng
https://le.ac.uk/courses/general-engineering-beng/2025
From prosthetic limbs to exploratory spacecraft, engineers design and build extraordinary machines, products and systems. But doing so often takes more than specialist expertise.