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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020
From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Three new professors for the Leiden Institute of Chemistry 31 August 2020
With Sylvestre Bonnet, Jeroen Codée and Remus Dame, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will be getting no less than three new professors. Bonnet ...
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Tutors receive digital support 20 August 2020
In the Leiden Tutor programme, Leiden students support junior school pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This is a difficult task so the dep...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability 13 August 2020
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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Volkert van Steijn new programme director for MST 27 July 2020
After many years, Peter Hamersma will retire and resign as Programme Director for the BSc Molecular Science & Technology. His successor is Volkert van...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic 14 July 2020
A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...
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Leiden Observatory launches online summer programme for kids 03 July 2020
This summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...
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First Advisory Board meeting Legal Technologies programme 03 July 2020
In The Hague, the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) in close collaboration with the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) is developing a Legal Te...
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Europe to foster the Social-Economical Impact of Astronomy 02 July 2020
The European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (E-ROAD) has held its first conference session at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting of the Eur...
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Master student Maddalena Centanni awarded with Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize 18 June 2020
Former masterstudent Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Maddalena Centanni will be awarded the 2020 Arenberg Coimbra Prize for Erasmus Students. Centanni spe...
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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 Lockdown Lab Lore 17 June 2020
Leiden Lockdown Lab Lore is a series of short youtube videos aimed at keeping physicists lab instincts alive during the lockdown. This time, we have a...
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Teacher of the year 2019 Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd is always ready to answer questions 15 June 2020
Last January, the education assessors of the different study associations chose Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Resear...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision 01 June 2020
Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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How these three students experience education from home 28 May 2020
A lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themsel...