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Hybrid fieldwork: from emergency solution to research enrichment 11 January 2023
You have prepared a research project, put together a plan, and you are ready to travel to the country where you will be conducting your fieldwork. Wha...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Annual overview Leiden2022: Leiden Law School 10 January 2023
A presentation on the latest developments in artificial intelligence and law, several public lectures on Criminal Justice, and a brand new trial in wh...
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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses 10 January 2023
A circular water supply for Artis Zoo, sustainable software for the Dutch government and better waste management at a hospital: master’s students in I...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros 09 January 2023
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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Our government should be more resilient 09 January 2023
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many chall...
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Physics student Hidde Stoffels investigates dark matter in outstanding undergraduate thesis 06 January 2023
He makes music, goes to the athletics track twice a week and, according to his supervisor, has done his research so well that it would not be out of p...
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Madouc Bergers made her own enzyme inhibitors for her bachelor’s thesis 06 January 2023
For her bachelor’s thesis, Molecular Science and Technology student Madouc Bergers synthesized her own molecule that can inhibit the breakdown of suga...
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Mathematics student Alex Colling: ‘Bachelor’s thesis was highlight of my time in Leiden’ 06 January 2023
Alex Colling himself calls his bachelor's thesis ‘the highlight of his time in Leiden’. And according to his supervisors, that resulted in an outstand...
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?' 03 January 2023
Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran ...
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Improving safety assessment of nanoparticles 03 January 2023
How safe are the nanoparticles in transparent sunscreen, anti-odour socks and bacteria-resistant plasters? Although microbes are present on all organi...
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'This is the very best course there is' 02 January 2023
Martina Vijver has been nominated as Teacher of the Year of the Faculty of Science. She gets this nomination for the course Ecotoxicology she taught i...
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Throwback to the successful LANCE internship and job market 22 December 2022
On December 1, the Faculty of Archaeology hosted the LANCE internship and job market 2022 for our BA2 and BA3 students. No less than 14 Dutch commerci...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’ 22 December 2022
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed? 20 December 2022
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...