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• University research plays ‘vital role’ in fighting climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/climate-exp0

  Professor Susan Page, from the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, shared leading research into using peatland environments to capture carbon as one form of nature-based solution.

• Leicester researchers involved in hunt for golden spike that signalled new epoch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/leicester-researchers-involved-in-hunt-for-golden-spike-that-signalled-new-epoch

  Geologists - including Professor Jan Zalasiewicz and Dr Colin Waters from the Department of Geology - are on the hunt for the 'golden spike' that would signify the moment humanity changed the planet forever and triggered the Anthropocene era.

• Inspired Villages

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/executive-education-programmes/transformative-custom-programmes/inspired-villages

  Established in 2017, Inspired Villages aim to significantly transform the later life experience in the UK by developing living communities in suburban and rural locations.

• £10 billion space telescope has only just begun to reveal universe’s secrets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/jwst-anniversary

  Engineers from the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester, who have been part of the £10 billion James Webb Space Telescope mission for 20 years, reflect on the first anniversary of its first images release.

• Chancellor issues call for Leicester grads to change the world for the better

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/maggie

  The Chancellor of the University of Leicester has issued a rallying cry to the new crop of graduates to think big, fight injustice and change the world for the better.

• Record-breaking year for University of Leicester as its research funding doubles

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/research-record

  The University of Leicester is celebrating a record-breaking year of research awards after doubling the amount it received compared to the previous year.

• Midwifery academic wins regional award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/midwifery

  Dr Helen McIntyre has won a regional award for embedding best practice in infant feeding within midwifery education to improve maternal and infant health

• Leicester to become first UK city to join global initiative against urban diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-to-become-first-uk-city-to-join-global-initiative-against-urban-diabetes

  Leicester will join the likes of Copenhagen, Mexico City, Rome and Shanghai in becoming part of the Cities Changing Diabetes programme to tackle the dramatic rise of type 2 diabetes in urban areas.

• Joe Ortons plays to be retyped onto single sheet of paper to commemorate 50th anniversary of his death

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/joe-ortons-plays-to-be-retyped-onto-single-sheet-of-paper-to-commemorate-50th-anniversary-of-his-death

  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton, performance artist Tim Youd will retype his Collected Plays on a single sheet of paper from 20 January to 5 February 2017.

• Primary school pupils graduate before University of Leicester students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/intouniversity-graduation

  Primary school children stole a march on University of Leicester students after graduating from the institution at the age of just 10 and 11.