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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...
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling01 February 2021It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward18 January 2021A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen12 January 2021To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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ASML Graduation Prize for mathematics student Pim Spelier – Incentive Prize for first-year student Jorre The10 December 2020Alumnus Pim Spelier is one of the two winners of the ASML Graduation prizes for mathematics students. He used a new method to solve single polynomial ...
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Green Light from the Advisory Board Legal Technologies program27 November 2020Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...
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Bacteria that degrade plastic: Unilever Research Prize for master’s student Jo-Anne Verschoor26 November 2020Jo-Anne Verschoor wins the Unilever Research Prize 2020. The master's student in Biology developed a method to test whether bacteria are capable of de...
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This is how didactic Peter Kop encourages high school students to make friends with algebraic formulas17 November 2020For many high school students, mathematical formulas are nothing more than abracadabra. Didactic and mathematics teacher Peter Kop wants to change thi...
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Two times KNMP Student Award for Leiden students13 November 2020This year, two Leiden master students will be awarded a KNMP Student Award. Both Wisse van Os and Jip Linthorst will receive 1,000 euros from the Roya...
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High school students explore Faculty of Science at first online Open Days ever02 November 2020For the first time since the establishment of Leiden University, the Open Days took place online. On Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October high school stu...
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An overall picture: the environmental impacts of a new solar cell technology20 October 2020A more efficient solar panel sounds great. But what if these new panels consume more toxic materials, or their production consumes a lot of energy? Le...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity15 October 2020The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...