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• The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective, 1415-1960

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-carceral-archipelago

  ‘The Carceral Archipelago’ has been funded by the European Research Council (2013-18), under the direction of principal investigator Professor Clare Anderson.

• New world plants in Italy, from observation to assimilation (1500-1850)

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/new-world-plants-in-italy

  Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (£112,364) October 2007 - September 2010 Dr David Gentilcore Prior to the research project, there had been little systematic study of the impact that plants from the New World had on early modern and modern Italy.

• Computer Architecture

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/co1104

  Module code: CO1104 While modern computers and computer-controlled devices are complex, there are key components from which these are built. In particular they have a processor which might be thought of as the heart of a computer.

• Leicester academics message to returning British astronaut Tim Peake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-academics2019-message-to-returning-british-astronaut-tim-peake

  Space scientists from our University have praised the successful completion of British astronaut Tim Peake’s six month mission aboard the International Space Station.

• Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings

  The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.

• Is there life on Mars?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/15-is-there-life-on-mars

  BBC Life on Mars BBC Camera Crew filming University academic|The university of Leicester is working closely with NASA and the European Space Agency to determine the age-old question, is there life on Mars? Mars Sample Return is happening with the launch of NASA’s Mars 2020...

• External examining

  https://le.ac.uk/study/external-examining

  external exam information for university of Leicester

• Dialect

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect

  A research project conducted by researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the Univeristy of Leicester aimed to find differences in regional dialects in the East Midlands over the past century. Learn more.

• Leicester International Institute, Dalian University of Technology 大连理工大学莱斯特国际学院

  https://le.ac.uk/dalian

  The Leicester International Institute was established on 24th March 2017 as a Sino-foreign cooperative educational institution with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

• Former Leicester astronomers recall how they discovered the source of the dazzling Geminids meteor shower

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/former-leicester-astronomers-recall-how-they-discovered-the-source-of-the-dazzling-geminids-meteor-shower

  The beautiful Geminids meteor shower is due to light up the heavens this weekend, but the source of the enigmatic cosmic display had eluded stargazers for more than 120 years.