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‘Everyone who wanted to work in Brussels has got a job in Brussels’On the day that Leiden University celebrated its 444th birthday, we organised drinks for our alumni who live and work in the Brussels area.
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Positive assessment of teaching quality at Leiden UniversityLeiden University has received a positive assessment in the Institutional Quality Assessment audit (ITK). This is the second time that quality assuran...
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Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen third in VERSEN Master Thesis AwardPhD candidate Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen received the VERSEN Master Thesis Award 3rd prize for his master’s thesis on quantum computing. ‘A forward-looking th...
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United Nations Fellowship awarded to Statistics PhD Kevin DuistersUnited Nations Global Pulse, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General on big data and AI, recently launched the Data Fellows program. Kevin Duisters,...
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Leiden scientists map cell types in fetal kidneyKidney failure is a serious issue because kidneys cannot regenerate themselves after injury. A possible solution consists of artificially growing heal...
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Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal SystemBen Wielstra strives to unravel the evolution of balanced lethal systems. On 1 February he started his own lab at the Institute of Biology Leiden. Wie...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craftThe documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...
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Portraits Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot on Hartstichting.nlThe Heart Foundation has portrayed researchers Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) who fight heart and b...
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Online Experience 2.0 Urban Studies - City BiodiversityCML researchers Nadia Soudzilovskaia, Rene Kleijn, Stefano Cucurachi, and Kevin Groen are teaching about the links between city sustainability and bio...
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Arie Kraaijenoord: ‘I stuck around and I’ve been working here for 33 years now’Every day, Arie Kraaijenoord (64) can be seen driving around in his little blue van, delivering the mail in and around the Lipsius building. He’s been...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grantPhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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First ILS Lunch Seminar of 2019 in hindsightOn Thursday 14 February, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this year took place. Beryl ter Haar and Yannick van den Brink gave two very insightful presen...
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Media about hundreds of thousands of unknown galaxiesAn international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries has published hundreds of thousands of unknown galaxies. The data are part of a ...
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Interview with Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii on Child Marriage in Indonesian newspaper ‘Jakarta Globe’PhD candidates Mies Grijns and Hoko Horii were interviewed about their research on Child Marriage in Indonesia in the ‘Jakarta Globe’, a daily online ...
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AI researchers stress importance of collaborations with UKIn an open letter, 450 leading European researchers from 33 countries have urged European and national governments to strongly cooperate on artificial...