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Alexander van Oudenhoven Discoverer of the year 201610 January 2017Environmental scientist Alexander van Oudenhoven has been chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Faculty of Science. Vice Rector Magnificus Hester Bi...
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Almost twenty new MOOCs have started10 January 2017Nineteen new Leiden University MOOCs have started this January. Anyone can take part in these online courses varying from combatting terrorism to kid...
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Space Scoop selected as one of the Great Websites for Kids03 January 2017The American Library Association has selected the Space Scoop website as one of the Great Websites for Kids (GWS). Space Scoop, which launched a dedic...
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'Leiden' awarded for computational intelligence19 December 2016The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science congratulates alumnus Pepijn van Heiningen and the with the Technische Hochschule Köln shared PhD-st...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China16 December 2016The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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Rush hour in the Academy Building: record number of PhD defences15 December 2016A record number of 417 PhD candidates defended their theses in 2016. How many of these were cum laude? What were their propositions? The advantage of ...
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Read the online magazine on diversity and inclusiveness13 December 2016How can we make sure that everyone feels welcome at our university? Read the highlights from the conference on The Making of an Inclusive Leiden Unive...
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Our Talents and Discoveries 201613 December 2016Christmas is coming, which means that 'Our Talents and Discoveries 2016' has been distributed. This also means that it is time to vote for the 'Discov...
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NWO tenure track grant in arithmetic algebraic geometry11 December 2016
Within the context of the four national mathematics clusters, NWO has awarded seven proposals for tenure track positions. One of these was on 'Moduli,...
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King opens new wing of Leiden Instrumentmakers School06 December 2016King Willem-Alexander visited Leiden on 6 December to open the new wing of the Leiden Instrumentmakers School. Students of this vocational programme m...
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Interdisciplinary project group wins Bouw Recycling Award29 November 2016An Interdisciplinary project group of the Master Industrial Ecology was awarded a prize for its project “From waste to resource, One chain with shared...
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Colloquium night - November 29th29 November 2016
On Tuesday the 29th of November, the SBB Studentboard organized the third SBB Colloquium Night. Max, Guido, Niek, Yiyu and Dennis presented their inte...
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Doctors and citizens under fire in conflict zones25 November 2016It is time for the international community to put a stop to war crimes – especially against medical personnel, argued international chair of Doctors W...
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Leiden strengthens collaboration with two Chinese universities23 November 2016Leiden University is working increasingly closely with Chinese universities. On 22 November the Rector signed a statement of intent to ratify the rela...
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‘The sky is not the limit for Honours students’16 November 2016Making Mars suitable for human habitation or giving first-year lectures as a student. For the past three years, 150 bachelor’s students have followed ...