October

Management degree offers new benefits to voluntary sector

New distance learning course from University of Leicester

Leicester faith and place trail launch

University of Leicester archaeologists at the Museum & Art Gallery, New Walk, on 7th October

Booktrust Project for Children aged 7-13 wins Award for Excellence

Project founded by University of Leicester academic wins accolade

The Future of Medical Research

MRC Head to give lecture at University of Leicester on Wednesday 12 October

Time Team's Mick Aston to deliver public lecture

Greatest living exponent of archaeology and local history on television to speak at University of Leicester on 6 October at 2.15pm

University of Leicester students raise nearly £126,000 for charities

Record Success for charitable students

Print Out exhibition celebrates double anniversary

Printing making exhibition at Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester’s arts centre, from 10 October

Toxins, mutagens and the dangers to your DNA

Public lectures on 11 October explore the reality of toxic damage

University of Leicester gets top marks for educational visits

Botanic Garden helps children learn outside the classroom

£5 million sports development in Oadby

University of Leicester holds ground-breaking ceremony

Children’s intensive care comes under scrutiny

New report published by Universities of Leicester and Leeds

Economics expert says it pays to be vague in the world of banking

Bankers’ vagueness helps financial stability, according to University of Leicester economist

Leicester Based Research Study Highlighted in National Report

National Institute for Health Research features University of Leicester diabetes study

UKERC awards £2M for topical energy projects

University of Leicester to lead project on Global Gas Security

Stunning development at University of Leicester increases awards tally

Percy Gee Building wins Design Excellence Award

After the Riots: Analysis and Public Debate

Community activists and sociologists to discuss English riots, Saturday, 15th October, 10.30am-5.30pm at the Birmingham Midland Institute, Birmingham

Dickens and Murder

Lecture explores influence of 19th century forensics on classic author on 17 October

Hatch: Fresh

Free event brought to you by Embrace Arts

Metal shortages alert from leading geologists

Inexorable demand for consumer goods places strain on supply of metals

Campaign offers support for students' mental health

University of Leicester initiative coincides with World Mental Health Day

Embrace Arts: Short Fuse writing workshop and Séance event this Halloween

This Halloween why not experience something spooky, creative and ground breaking?

Tiny fossil fragment reveals giant-but ugly-truth

Fossil in London’s Natural History Museum is part of biggest-ever toothed pterosaur from dinosaur era

University of Leicester researchers celebrate 'double hat trick' in heart research awards

Third-year in a row for national accolades by University researchers at Glenfield Hospital

Social media study reveals unreported truths on the nature of street protests

Academic analyses 70 YouTube videos and commentaries to highlight use of social media in protests

University of Leicester Percy Gee Building is Only UK Finalist in Global Greenbuild Competiton

Annual competition aims to jump-start the discussion on how we might retrofit entire cities to fight climate change

University of Leicester to Commercialise Ground Breaking Research with Design Council Programme

University of Leicester is one of only seven universities in Britain to win support to turn smart ideas into viable products through design

University of Leicester announces groundbreaking English language training initiative in Kurdistan - Iraq

New centre opened on 16th October 2011

CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth

Geologists assess deep impacts of near-Earth object strikes

Holocaust Awareness Week – lecture series

Holocaust Awareness Week events at University of Leicester, 24-27 October

Science and art combine to explode a myth

Red Sprites: Monday 31st October at 6.30pm, University of Leicester

Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin

Quirky and charming Edinburgh smash hit comes to Leicester

Viking boat burial find is UK mainland first

University of Leicester archaeologist involved in discovery

Park research breaks new ground

University of Leicester researcher investigates untold history of public parks

From Pillow Talk to The Hurt Locker: film history lecture series announced

Starting on 24 October with everything you ever wanted to know about Doris Day

The Austerity Olympics– London 1948 and 2012

Public lecture examines how London last hosted a ‘budget’ Olympics

The Northern Lights’ story of sun-formed celestial substorms

Solar winds battle with magnetic shields in public lecture on 25 October

Literary giants at the Literary Leicester festival

University of Leicester’s fourth annual Literary Leicester festival takes place from 9-12 November, 2011

Energy, Environment & Climate Change – Irreconcilable Conflict or Global Opportunity?

Recent events at Fukushima nuclear power plant examined in University of Leicester lecture

University of Leicester commissions consultants to preserve one of Britain's iconic buildings

Famous glass roof of Landmark Stirling-Gowan Engineering Building to be refurbished and preserved

Feel the Breeze: award-winning poet in performance and conversation

University of Leicester hosts Jamaican dub poet Jean Binta Breeze on 26 October

University of Leicester hosts Anglo-Greek symposium on banking and finance

International line-up of speakers on 19 November discusses financial systems and financial crisis

University of Leicester students help with riverside clearance for national volunteering day

Student volunteers take conservation action on 29th October at Bede Park

Company develops revolutionary new crime detection products with University of Leicester expertise

Record turnover, extra jobs and new export markets emerge following University-business partnership

Quality clinical education: why it really matters

Innovative work into teaching psychiatry described at public lecture on November 1

New Hi-tech Study Finds T. rex was Bigger and Grew Faster than Previously Thought

Jane, the T. rex replica at University of Leicester, contributes to new findings

Novel research seeks to locate Scotland's next gold mine

University of Leicester geologists apply new scientific methods to gold prospecting

Vikings and villains

Lecture on 31 October explores the Viking legacy left behind in our genes and surnames

Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes

University of Leicester scientist proposes theory for mysterious doughnut-shaped dust clouds

Undergraduates take on future climate challenges

University of Leicester students’ green project in finals of national competition

Tacitus' prism: the reality of Roman Egypt

The origins of prevailing stereotypes of Egypt to be explored in public lecture

University researcher seeks elderly volunteers to help with new study into vision

A University of Leicester student is embarking on new research into visual perception in the elderly.

Here comes the chemistry….regional coordinator appointed

New science champion to work with University of Leicester

Report acknowledges benefits of Special Olympics while calling for modernisation

Project co-led by University of Leicester sociologist