October
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Management degree offers new benefits to voluntary sector
- New distance learning course from University of Leicester
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Leicester faith and place trail launch
- University of Leicester archaeologists at the Museum & Art Gallery, New Walk, on 7th October
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Booktrust Project for Children aged 7-13 wins Award for Excellence
- Project founded by University of Leicester academic wins accolade
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The Future of Medical Research
- MRC Head to give lecture at University of Leicester on Wednesday 12 October
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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
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University of Leicester students raise nearly £126,000 for charities
- Record Success for charitable students
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Print Out exhibition celebrates double anniversary
- Printing making exhibition at Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester’s arts centre, from 10 October
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Toxins, mutagens and the dangers to your DNA
- Public lectures on 11 October explore the reality of toxic damage
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University of Leicester gets top marks for educational visits
- Botanic Garden helps children learn outside the classroom
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£5 million sports development in Oadby
- University of Leicester holds ground-breaking ceremony
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Children’s intensive care comes under scrutiny
- New report published by Universities of Leicester and Leeds
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Economics expert says it pays to be vague in the world of banking
- Bankers’ vagueness helps financial stability, according to University of Leicester economist
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Leicester Based Research Study Highlighted in National Report
- National Institute for Health Research features University of Leicester diabetes study
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UKERC awards £2M for topical energy projects
- University of Leicester to lead project on Global Gas Security
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Stunning development at University of Leicester increases awards tally
- Percy Gee Building wins Design Excellence Award
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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
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Dickens and Murder
- Lecture explores influence of 19th century forensics on classic author on 17 October
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Hatch: Fresh
- Free event brought to you by Embrace Arts
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Metal shortages alert from leading geologists
- Inexorable demand for consumer goods places strain on supply of metals
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Campaign offers support for students' mental health
- University of Leicester initiative coincides with World Mental Health Day
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Embrace Arts: Short Fuse writing workshop and Séance event this Halloween
- This Halloween why not experience something spooky, creative and ground breaking?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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University of Leicester announces groundbreaking English language training initiative in Kurdistan - Iraq
- New centre opened on 16th October 2011
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CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth
- Geologists assess deep impacts of near-Earth object strikes
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Holocaust Awareness Week – lecture series
- Holocaust Awareness Week events at University of Leicester, 24-27 October
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Science and art combine to explode a myth
- Red Sprites: Monday 31st October at 6.30pm, University of Leicester
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Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin
- Quirky and charming Edinburgh smash hit comes to Leicester
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Viking boat burial find is UK mainland first
- University of Leicester archaeologist involved in discovery
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Park research breaks new ground
- University of Leicester researcher investigates untold history of public parks
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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
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The Austerity Olympics– London 1948 and 2012
- Public lecture examines how London last hosted a ‘budget’ Olympics
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The Northern Lights’ story of sun-formed celestial substorms
- Solar winds battle with magnetic shields in public lecture on 25 October
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Literary giants at the Literary Leicester festival
- University of Leicester’s fourth annual Literary Leicester festival takes place from 9-12 November, 2011
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Energy, Environment & Climate Change – Irreconcilable Conflict or Global Opportunity?
- Recent events at Fukushima nuclear power plant examined in University of Leicester lecture
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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
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Feel the Breeze: award-winning poet in performance and conversation
- University of Leicester hosts Jamaican dub poet Jean Binta Breeze on 26 October
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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
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University of Leicester students help with riverside clearance for national volunteering day
- Student volunteers take conservation action on 29th October at Bede Park
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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
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Quality clinical education: why it really matters
- Innovative work into teaching psychiatry described at public lecture on November 1
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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
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Novel research seeks to locate Scotland's next gold mine
- University of Leicester geologists apply new scientific methods to gold prospecting
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Vikings and villains
- Lecture on 31 October explores the Viking legacy left behind in our genes and surnames
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Planets smashed into dust near supermassive black holes
- University of Leicester scientist proposes theory for mysterious doughnut-shaped dust clouds
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Undergraduates take on future climate challenges
- University of Leicester students’ green project in finals of national competition
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Tacitus' prism: the reality of Roman Egypt
- The origins of prevailing stereotypes of Egypt to be explored in public lecture
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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.
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Here comes the chemistry….regional coordinator appointed
- New science champion to work with University of Leicester
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Report acknowledges benefits of Special Olympics while calling for modernisation
- Project co-led by University of Leicester sociologist