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Anne Dirkson wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 2022 11 May 2022
The third edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award was won by Anne Dirkson, former LIACS PhD student. During her PhD she researched the...
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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’ 12 April 2022
Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles 29 June 2021
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...
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Alumnus Robert Ietswaart: ‘Machine learning is revolutionising drug discovery’ 15 June 2021
Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whethe...
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The hunt for the best computer language 10 May 2021
Our language is adapted to the context in which we humans communicate. But computers ‘think’ differently. What is the optimal form of a language for h...
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’ 07 May 2021
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth compan...
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines 18 February 2021
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help e...
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The quest for the magic angle 18 February 2021
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science sti...
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Green Light from the Advisory Board Legal Technologies program 27 November 2020
Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...
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Send us a photo of yourself with your diploma! 09 September 2020
With a wall full of people who preceded them as a backdrop, the (bachelor) Science graduates will receive their diplomas this autumn. Send in your pho...
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‘We add a bit of escape room to our lessons’ 17 June 2020
Tommy Hopstaken and Jochem Haverhoek run an escape room in Kruithuisje, a medieval tower on what was once the perimeter canal in Leiden. They are also...
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Leiden graduate starts petition for visa extension because of Covid-19 07 May 2020
Yuven Muniandy (36) from Malaysia recently obtained a PhD from Leiden University. His ‘orientation year’ visa gives him a year to find work in the Net...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories 23 April 2020
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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NGL presents: biweekly lectures on Corona 22 April 2020
The Natuurwetenschappelijk Gezelschap Leiden (Leiden Science Society) is organising short online evening lectures, every two weeks on Thursday, held ...
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Extraordinary orchids at Oude UB 05 March 2020
Skilful watercolours by botanical painter Esmée Winkel, anatomical flower models and the odd stunning real orchid. In the Extraordinary Orchids exhibi...