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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children25 May 2021When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict....
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Virtual preparation for lab practicals17 May 2021How can we better prepare students for their practicals, so that they learn more from them? Marjo de Graauw and her colleagues want to renew science e...
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area03 May 2021How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in a...
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time26 April 2021A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to d...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'23 April 2021Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers19 April 2021A team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists have directly imaged a giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet...
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'With Urban Studies in Practice, we bring the outside world inside'01 April 2021Working for a social client during your studies: this is what happens at Urban Studies. For the course Urban Studies in Practice, third-year students ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging30 March 2021How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award19 March 2021Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...
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Cyber Security Governance Essentials15 March 2021The new minor 'Cyber Security Governance Essentials' will start in September 2021. Third year bachelor students of The Leiden Institute of Advanced Co...
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Closing the skills gap for young researchers through innovation and entrepreneurship training12 March 2021The EU-funded project SKIES (SKilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) will train astronomy graduate students in transferable skills for aca...
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform11 March 2021Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently ...
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New master’s in Population Health Management26 February 2021Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Leiden University will start a new two-year English-taught master’s programme in Population Health Managem...
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Astronomers publish map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes19 February 2021An international team of astronomers has published a map of the sky showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes. The map, to be published in the jour...
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Renske Donkers wins Young Star Award, students surprise lecturers18 February 2021Molecular Science & Technology student Renske Donkers has won the second edition of the Young Star Award. During the ceremony on Wednesday 17 February...