News
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Campus The Hague in the picture 26 August 2019
Leiden University turned 444 this year, and we are celebrating this milestone with the residents of the two cities in which we have a presence: Leiden...
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Summer school in China: extreme heat and the Chinese Silicon Valley 15 August 2019
Going to school during the summer holidays? Some of our students accepted the challenge. And they didn’t do that just around the corner. During their ...
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Sugarcoating the search for a new vaccine 01 August 2019
A vaccine based on sugar coats does have the potential to combat a multi-resistant staphylococcus. That is what Jeroen Codée and his colleagues from U...
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Leiden students help children from The Hague: 'Now I can read and understand what I've read.' 30 July 2019
There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
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Wall formula about Huygens' pendulum painted on Leiden fire brigade tower 16 July 2019
The seventh Leiden wall formula has been finished. Over the last few weeks, mural artists Ben Walenkamp and Jan Willem Bruins have painted Christiaan ...
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Six Computer Science master students excel and go to Oxford 04 July 2019
Six master students of the Computer Science programme will present their papers on future cities at the NetMob conference in Oxford. The six papers we...
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MBO Rijnland students animate Leiden physics 02 July 2019
There are miniaturisation beams, microrobots, and ice skaters who suddenly drop into a hole in the ice. Students of the local MBO Rijnland let their i...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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Data Science certificates awarded to employees of Ministry IenW 26 June 2019
On Monday, June 24th, 24 employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) received their certificates for completing Data Scien...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future 19 June 2019
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid protein 03 June 2019
Eleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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Quantum computing pioneer Seth Lloyd is the 2019 Lorentz Professor 29 May 2019
American physicist and quantum computing pioneer Seth Lloyd is the 65th Lorentz professor. He will deliver the Ehrenfest lecture on 5 June, and severa...
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Photo reportage on Leiden lion research in national newspaper 22 May 2019
Photographer Taco van der Eb accompanied Kenyan and Leiden researchers and students on a trip to Lake Nakuru National Park to record their conservatio...
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The building blocks for astronomically literate citizens 13 May 2019
What does it mean for a citizen to be ‘literate’ in astronomy? Astronomers who participate in outreach to the general public experience various degree...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturers 23 April 2019
Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...