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Bacteria growing on light and air: a revolution for biotechnology? 30 November 2022Research to experiment with bacteria that grow like plants has been granted the NWO XS grant. These bacteria use light and carbon dioxide to grow, and...
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Meet the Book Author: COI Postdoc discusses her new book with the Journal of Law and Society 29 November 2022Aleydis Nissen discusses her new book, The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights.
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Will the new plans steer us out of the nitrogen crisis? Expert Jan Willem Erisman explains 29 November 2022They were eagerly awaited: four letters from five ministers that should provide clarity on how to get us out of the nitrogen crisis. Nitrogen expert J...
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Biology student Martijn Verkuilen wins Unilever Research Prize 29 November 2022Martijn Verkuilen is the winner of the Unilever Research Prize 2022. By transferring DNA from a plant into yeast, he made the first move to produce a ...
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Executive Board column: Spui building is a magnet for interdisciplinary collaboration 29 November 2022This month the University and several partners signed the rental contract for the brand-new Spui building. What will this location mean for the future...
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries 29 November 2022Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ...
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Successful signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the CCOE and ISGA/FGGA 28 November 2022On 24 November a High-Level panel discussion on the occasion of the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the NATO Civil-Militar...
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PhD candidate uses AI to search patient forums for unknown side effects 28 November 2022Patients on patient forums share all sorts of things about their illness: from side effects and advice to messages of support. PhD candidate Anne Dirk...
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How superconducting memory could help data centres reduce their carbon footprint 28 November 2022Listening to music on Spotify or watching Netflix or YouTube: few of us realise that CO2 is released in the process. This is because online services a...
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New book by Sabine Witting on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 28 November 2022In this commentary, Sabine Witting, Assistant Professor at eLaw, provides a comprehensive analysis of the Second Optional Protocol to the United Natio...
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Documentaries, zines and a video installation: multimedia projects by students Visual Ethnography 28 November 2022From documentaries, zines and exhibitions to a video installation. Students of the Visual Ethnography master's programme pulled out all the stops to f...
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Five questions about the book 'Ruminations' by Tahir Abbas 28 November 2022Tahir Abbas, Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, is organising a book launch for his new book: 'Rumin...
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’ 28 November 2022As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey,...
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Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding' 25 November 2022What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wen...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa 25 November 2022‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...