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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023 19 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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Targeting the immune system to inhibit atherosclerosis 12 December 2023A new treatment for atherosclerosis showed promising results in isolated cells but proved to be less effective in initial animal tests. Bachelor stude...
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Life Science & Technology among best studies by Elseviers Weekblad 11 December 2023The MSc Life Science & Technology receives a bronze medal in EW Best Studies 2023. Every year, Elsevier selects the top programmes in higher education...
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‘The questions and ideas from students also make me a better researcher’ 07 December 2023‘Yamila Miguel brings along immense enthusiasm that sparks over to the students in the lectures,’ her students say about her. ‘She inspires us as scie...
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‘Most students are convinced that statistics is not for them. I am here to convince them otherwise’ 07 December 2023'Frans Rodenburg is an excellent teacher who is able to convey difficult information,' say his students. In his statistics classes, he wants to make s...
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‘Listen carefully when students ask a question, to hear the question behind the question’ 07 December 2023‘Rudy van Vliet is always willing to go that extra mile to help us,’ is what students say about him. The lecturer in the Computer Science bachelor’s p...
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New protein inhibitors against cancer? Unilever Research Prize for Aukje Beers 01 December 2023Aukje Beers combined theory and practice, as well as chemistry, biology, and computer models. In this way, she discovered two protein inhibitors durin...
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Four projects awarded science communication grants 24 November 2023A climate game, a science and music festival, a mobile psychology lab and interactive sessions on anxiety in children. The Dutch Research Council (NWO...
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18 billion animals a year: they die, but never end up on our plate 20 November 2023Each year a staggering 18 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, and cows either die or are killed without making it onto someone's plate. Env...
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’ 13 November 2023The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic a...
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Vocational education and university join forces for quantum technology 09 November 2023Quantum technology is the future, but not without skilled people. For this reason, the Talent & Learning Centre (TLC) Delft/Leiden has been establishe...
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Arnold Tukker appointed as a guest professor in Indonesia, conducting research on the sustainable development of the economy 09 November 2023A splendid milestone after seven years of collaborative research on the sustainable development of the Indonesian economy. Professor of Industrial Eco...
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iGEM team wins multiple awards at Grand Jamboree 09 November 2023Leiden's iGEM team has won high honours at the Grand Jamboree in Paris. The biology students came second in the Overgraduate category with their proje...
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Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students 09 November 2023Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects. ...
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Partnership agreement with Indonesian Universitas Gadjah Mada ratified during visit 30 October 2023From student exchanges and a joint laboratory to heritage research and a knowledge consortium, the Indonesian Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) is in vari...