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  • New insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant revealed in BBC One documentary

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant-revealed-in-bbc-one-documentary

    New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in a BBC One documentary hosted by Sir David Attenborough and featuring a University of Leicester...

  • Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

    Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.

  • Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch

    MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...

  • tribute

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/jean-humphreys/tribute

    Via, veritas, vita. A tribute to Jean Humphreys During several of our visits to see Jean when she was in the Nursing Home, she said to me in her inimitable Scottish way ‘I want you to preach me out’.

  • Richard Taylor wins major settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/richard-taylor-settlement-steve-coogan-defamation-case

    University of Leicester statement about Richard Taylor's settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case.

  • School children ‘Ask the Astronaut’ with University of Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/tim-peake-aac-schools

    School children had the chance to submit their questions through the ‘Little Inventors in Space’ programme, led by the Attenborough Arts Centre in partnership with Little Inventors and Inspirate.

  • European Space Agency Education Symposium comes to Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/13-european-space-agency

    Earlier this year, our Doctoral College was approached by the West Indian Senior Citizens Project (WISCP), asking if some of our doctoral and early career researchers would present their findings as part of the WISCP Awareness and Wellbeing Week.

  • Sanctuary pre-applicants, applicants, students and alumni privacy notice

    https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/students/sanctuary-pre-applicant

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  • Prolonged periods of sedentary time strongly associated with amount of fat around internal organs

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/prolonged-periods-of-sedentary-time-strongly-associated-with-amount-of-fat-around-internal-organs

    A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, our University and Loughborough University - has found new evidence to suggest that longer periods of sedentary time (defined as any sitting/reclining...

  • BBC Gardener Nick Bailey donates entire garden to the University

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/bbc-gardener-nick-bailey-donates-garden

    Director of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden kindly donates plants from his headline ‘Plant-based’ garden showcased at BBC Gardener’s World Live

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