In the media
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Radio interview with Rene Kleijn about Urban Mining and Plastic Recycling 07 November 2017Recycling of post consumer plastic waste is problematic in that the environmental benefits are questionable and the costs are significant. It would be...
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Interview with Huub de Groot for Leiden Open Access Blog 25 October 2017
Open Access means shared responsibility for research programs. An interview with Prof. Huub de Groot for the Leiden Open Access Blog in the scope of t...
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Interview Michel Orrit on NPO Cultura 28 September 2017On Thursday 28 September at 19:45, tv channel NPO Cultura will broadcast an interview with Michel Orrit about his Spinoza Prize winning research, as p...
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Media about the late Nicolaas Bloembergen 21 September 2017Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981, passed away on 5 September in Tucson, Arizona. Bloembergen obtained his PhD on nucle...
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'Leiden' identical twins on national tv at Vroege Vogels. 05 September 2017Biology PhD student at Leiden University Kevin Groen and his identical twin brother Marvin Groen (a biology student as well) will be on Dutch Televi...
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NPO1 interviews Carel ten Cate about intelligent birds 25 August 2017Last week Professor of Animal Behaviour Carel ten Cate was interviewed about intelligent birds, in response to the recent publication of his book 'Avi...
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Female Birdsong Is Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves 24 August 2017Last week Audubon published an article about the lack of female birdsong recordings and the community sourced project that is tackeling this skew.
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Paul Behrens in international media with warning climate change 27 July 2017Environmental researcher Paul Behrens generated both international as national media attention with his recent publication in Nature Energy. The media...
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Bouncing gel balls popular in the media 25 July 2017The explanation from physicist Scott Waitukaitis for the screaming and bouncing gel balls in a hot pan has been covered in several media, including th...
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New insights in bee decline 03 July 2017Two scientific papers in Science deliver new pieces of the puzzle for the reasons of bee decline. Professor Koos Biesmeijer comment on this research i...
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Large media attention for Spinoza Prize Michel Orrit 23 June 2017An important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.
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Various media on drug research Mario van der Stelt 15 June 2017Media in the Netherlands and abroad reported extensively about the drug research led by Leiden chemist Mario van der Stelt. In this research, Van der ...
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Former Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek nominated for New Scientist Talent prize 29 May 2017Former Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek is one of the 25 nominees for the title New Scientist Science Talent 2017. Nobel prize winner Ben Feringa...
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SBB team wins Philips Innovation Award 12 May 2017On Monday May 8th, two Leiden Startups took part in the finals of the Philips Innovation Awards. One Leiden venture, Levels Diagnostics, was selected ...