News
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Science delegation enhances influence in China 14 December 2017
A large delegation composed of 11 delegates from institutes from the Faculty of Science has made an extensive visit to China and enhanced Leiden’s inf...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017
Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Change Make Challenge Award for Biology Master student: Gayathri Jaikumar 27 March 2017
Gayathri Jaikamur has been awarded by the Dopper Foundation in the Change Make Challenge. She is a student of Masters Biology (Specialisation: Evolut...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Dr. Constance Eikelenboom (1921 – 2017) 21 March 2017
Mrs. Dr. Constance (Stans) Eikelenboom passed away on Sunday, March 12th, at the age of 95. She was the founder of the 'Stans Award', a prize which ev...
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Best Spanish doctoral thesis in Soil science in 2015 for CML researcher Daniel Arenas Lago 13 March 2017
The Spanish Society of Soil Science has chosen as the best thesis of 2015 (call 2016) in Spain to the CML-researcher Daniel Arenas Lago, for his resea...
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Rise in temperature impacts mountain ecosystem 26 January 2017
Higher temperatures are resulting in changes to vegetation and soil in mountain areas throughout the world. An international research team including L...
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Stans Prize 2016 for Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha 23 January 2017
The ‘Stans Prize 2016' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha. Other CML pr...
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Winter school on 'tropical biodiversity and sustainability' in Indonesia 20 January 2017
In the presence of the ambassador for the Netherlands, Rob Swartbol, and the rector of Universitas Indonesia Muhammad Anis, the winter school on tropi...
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Alexander van Oudenhoven Discoverer of the year 2016 10 January 2017
Environmental 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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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China 16 December 2016
The 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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Interdisciplinary project group wins Bouw Recycling Award 29 November 2016
An 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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Royal decoration for Hans de Iongh 28 October 2016
Hans de Iongh, associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), was named 'Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau' on Thursday 27 ...
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Support the Living Lab for research on hazardous compounds in 36 ditches 19 September 2016
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University started crowdfunding to raise 15.000 euro to build a laboratory in natur...
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Start Minor Sustainable Development 08 September 2016
Monday 5 September the eighth edition of the interdisciplinary Minor Sustainable Development started. With 65 students coming from more than 20 differ...