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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling 01 February 2021
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward 18 January 2021
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen 12 January 2021
To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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ASML Graduation Prize for mathematics student Pim Spelier – Incentive Prize for first-year student Jorre The 10 December 2020
Alumnus Pim Spelier is one of the two winners of the ASML Graduation prizes for mathematics students. He used a new method to solve single polynomial ...
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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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Bacteria that degrade plastic: Unilever Research Prize for master’s student Jo-Anne Verschoor 26 November 2020
Jo-Anne Verschoor wins the Unilever Research Prize 2020. The master's student in Biology developed a method to test whether bacteria are capable of de...
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This is how didactic Peter Kop encourages high school students to make friends with algebraic formulas 17 November 2020
For many high school students, mathematical formulas are nothing more than abracadabra. Didactic and mathematics teacher Peter Kop wants to change thi...
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Two times KNMP Student Award for Leiden students 13 November 2020
This year, two Leiden master students will be awarded a KNMP Student Award. Both Wisse van Os and Jip Linthorst will receive 1,000 euros from the Roya...
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High school students explore Faculty of Science at first online Open Days ever 02 November 2020
For the first time since the establishment of Leiden University, the Open Days took place online. On Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October high school stu...
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An overall picture: the environmental impacts of a new solar cell technology 20 October 2020
A more efficient solar panel sounds great. But what if these new panels consume more toxic materials, or their production consumes a lot of energy? Le...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity 15 October 2020
The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University 13 October 2020
Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizon 25 September 2020
At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a success 21 September 2020
After a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...
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Academic year Biology starts with 2020 pieces less litter 07 September 2020
The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the I...