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Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers 19 April 2021A 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 2021Working 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 2021How 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 2021Last 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 2021The 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 2021The 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 2021Students 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 2021Leiden 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 2021An 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 2021Molecular Science & Technology student Renske Donkers has won the second edition of the Young Star Award. During the ceremony on Wednesday 17 February...
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling 01 February 2021It’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 2021A 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 2021To 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 2020Alumnus 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 2020Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...