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UK scientists generate electricity from rare element to power future space missions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-americium-electricity-space-power
Experts have generated electricity from a rare chemical element for the first time which may mean future space missions can be powered for up to 400 years.
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Insights into safe drinking water to be presented by experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/insights-safe-drinking-water-workshop
Workshop will bring together experts from H2OforAll project with water treatment professionals, supported by University of Leicester team who are evaluating technologies to remove disinfection by-products from drinking water
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Frederick and Mary Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/frederick-and-mary
Frederick was our second Principal and under his leadership it expanded rapidly. He, and his wife Mary, lived on the campus with their sons Richard, David and John.
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Human and Social Geography
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/human-and-social-geography
Find your research degree supervisor in Human and Social Geography at Leicester.
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Joe Carr: Music and education on the East Coast
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/joe-carr
Museum Studies graduate Joe Carr talks about his life and career after graduating from Leicester in 2002.
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Leicester link to Nobel Prize winners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-link-to-nobel-prize-winners
In the latest announcement from the Nobel Prize committee, US academics Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University, Boston and Mike Young at Rockefeller University, New York, have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of...
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LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018-19
https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events/lectis-seminar-series-2018-19
See the programme for the LeCTIS Seminar Series for the 2018-19 academic year.
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Research degrees
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/study/research-degrees
The Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester has a lively community of doctoral students, who register with the department most connected with their research topic (English, History or History of Art).
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Esteemed Leicester University professor hands over reins of celebrated Space Research Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/space-research-centre-head
A professor who has been the driving force in advancing space research and exploration at the University of Leicester for more than four decades has handed over the reins of the newly named Space Projects and Instrumentation Group.
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China delegation hosted by University of Leicester strengthens education links
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/chongqing-delegation
Visit strengthens links between Chongqing Medical University (CQMU) and Leicester, who have collaborated on medical education provision since 2019