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Volkert van Steijn new programme director for MST 27 July 2020After 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 2020A 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 2020This 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 2020In 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 2020The 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 2020Former 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 2020Tommy 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 2020Leiden 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 2020Last 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 2020Lions 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 2020A lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themsel...
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Marnix Medema new visiting professor Van der Klaauw chair 01 May 2020The Institute of Biology Leiden has a new visiting professor as of the first of May. Bioinformatician Marnix Medema holds the Van der Klaauw chair for...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace 29 April 2020For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help 06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Digital dissection and remote microscopy lessons 03 April 2020Due to the corona crisis, they had to switch to online education halfway during their course: associate professor Marcel Schaaf and PhD candidate Mich...