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• 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.

• Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/fruit-air-pollution-lung-function

  Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam by Leicester scientists

• New report finds nuclear weapons and related systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-nuclear-report

  Report involving Dr Andrew Futter finds nuclear weapon increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

• Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/yellowstone

  A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event.

• Quarantine support available for international students heading to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/quarantine

  The University of Leicester has published clear guidance for international students traveling to the UK this autumn, offering no-cost accommodation to every student required to quarantine.

• Economics Skylark Scholarship and Economics Award

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/economics-skylark

  The Economics Skylark Scholarship and Economics Award are intended for applicants with Black African or Caribbean heritage from socio-economically challenged backgrounds who will be commencing study of an Economics undergraduate degree programme.

• Jupiters jawdropping north pole unlike anything encountered in Solar System

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/jupiters-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system

  Last week NASA's Juno spacecraft sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.

• Dr George Pohl

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/george-pohl

  We have learned, with regret, of the passing of Dr Jurgen (George) Pohl MBChB, MRCP, who helped to establish the Leicester Medical School in the 1970s, serving as Senior Lecturer in Medicine until his retirement in 2001.