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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children 25 May 2021
When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict....
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Virtual preparation for lab practicals 17 May 2021
How can we better prepare students for their practicals, so that they learn more from them? Marjo de Graauw and her colleagues want to renew science e...
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area 03 May 2021
How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in a...
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time 26 April 2021
A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to d...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important' 23 April 2021
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers 19 April 2021
A team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists have directly imaged a giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet...
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'With Urban Studies in Practice, we bring the outside world inside' 01 April 2021
Working for a social client during your studies: this is what happens at Urban Studies. For the course Urban Studies in Practice, third-year students ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging 30 March 2021
How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award 19 March 2021
Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...
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Cyber Security Governance Essentials 15 March 2021
The new minor 'Cyber Security Governance Essentials' will start in September 2021. Third year bachelor students of The Leiden Institute of Advanced Co...
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Closing the skills gap for young researchers through innovation and entrepreneurship training 12 March 2021
The EU-funded project SKIES (SKilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) will train astronomy graduate students in transferable skills for aca...
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform 11 March 2021
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently ...
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New master’s in Population Health Management 26 February 2021
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Leiden University will start a new two-year English-taught master’s programme in Population Health Managem...
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Astronomers publish map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes 19 February 2021
An international team of astronomers has published a map of the sky showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes. The map, to be published in the jour...
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Renske Donkers wins Young Star Award, students surprise lecturers 18 February 2021
Molecular Science & Technology student Renske Donkers has won the second edition of the Young Star Award. During the ceremony on Wednesday 17 February...