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• Turi King

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/turi-king

  Canadian Turi started as an archaeologist, studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, then switched to Genetics when she came to Leicester as a postgraduate.

• Ritah Nabunje

  https://le.ac.uk/people/ritah-nabunje

  Ritah is a postgraduate research student studying genetics of pulmonary fibrosis across diverse populations.

• Hamish Simpson

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/hamish-simpson

  We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Hamish Simpson, former Professor of Paediatrics, who passed away on 4 March 2025, aged 91. Hamish Simpson was born on 23 December 1933 in Glasgow.

• Final steps

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/final-steps

  History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project.

• Our international campus opens in China

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/our-international-campus-opens-in-china

  Our first international Institute - in China – offering dual degrees in STEM subjects opens this month. The Institute is the result of a partnership between Leicester and leading Chinese University - Dalian University of Technology.

• Leicester PhD graduates debut novel among most anticipated books of 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-phd-graduate2019s-debut-novel-among-most-anticipated-books-of-2017

  Leicester PhD graduate Dr Sabyn Javeri’s debut novel, Nobody Killed Her, has been included as one of the Huffington Post India’s most anticipated books of 2017.

• Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon

  Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier, increasing the dangers of flooding and drought

• Breakthrough for firm working to protect satellites from ‘space bullets’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/space-bullet

  A company based at the University of Leicester working on a pioneering system to save the space industry billions every year has successfully demonstrated the operation of its technology in orbit.

• New insights into how asthma pathways could be blocked revealed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/new-insights-into-how-asthma-pathways-could-be-blocked-revealed-by-study

  Researchers have discovered new insights into how asthma may be caused, by identifying three distinct groups of asthma patients characterised by the activity of different genes in an individual’s airways.

• Undergraduate courses

  https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/study/undergraduate

  American Studies degrees at the University of Leicester offer an exciting multidisciplinary approach to the study of the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States.