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• £2.6 million centre to train mineral resources experts for a new generation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/target-minerals-postgraduate

  Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources (TARGET) to be led by University of Leicester with universities, research organisations and industrial partners from across the UK to train the next generation of mineral resource experts to help the shift to...

• Innovative counter terrorism initiative sees one in three success rate for stop and search

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/17-servator

  An innovative police counter terrorism initiative has seen a rise in the effectiveness of stop and search tactics, new research by the University of Leicester reveals.

• A giant leap for student-kind

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/a-giant-leap-for-student-kind

  Three of our students are going to boldly embark on a career-making opportunity to work on new space technologies with one of Europe’s leading space companies, OHB System AG.

• New clues about why non-smokers, as well as smokers, develop chronic lung disease revealed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/25-copd

  chest xray showing lungs|Researchers reveal findings that explain why some people who have never smoked develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

• NIHR anniversary report highlights Leicester research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/nihr-anniversary-report-highlights-leicester-research

  Two projects at the University of Leicester have been highlighted as shining examples of the benefits of research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research since its creation in 2006.

• Leicester researchers design and build instrument to explore the surface of Mercury

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-researchers-design-and-build-instrument-to-explore-the-surface-of-mercury

  An instrument designed and built by Leicester researchers, which will help to unlock the secrets of Mercury’s surface, has been shipped from the Space Research Centre to the European Space Agency, where it will be integrated with the BepiColombo spacecraft which is...

• Professor Sir Bob Burgess (1947-2022)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/campus-development/freemens/freemens-building-names/professor-bob-burgess

  Read more about Professor Sir Robert ‘Bob’ Burgess who was the longest serving Vice-Chancellor of the Leicester University so far.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/208/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

• Space Park Leicester enables UK support of ispace’s historic Lunar Lander Mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/meridian-lunar-launch

  Space Park Leicester's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) used by Dr Sam Richards of Meridian Space Command to support the launch of ispace's lunar lander