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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University13 October 2020Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizon25 September 2020At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a success21 September 2020After a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...
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Academic year Biology starts with 2020 pieces less litter07 September 2020The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the I...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Three new professors for the Leiden Institute of Chemistry31 August 2020With Sylvestre Bonnet, Jeroen Codée and Remus Dame, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will be getting no less than three new professors. Bonnet ...
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Tutors receive digital support20 August 2020In the Leiden Tutor programme, Leiden students support junior school pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This is a difficult task so the dep...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability13 August 2020How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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Volkert van Steijn new programme director for MST27 July 2020After many years, Peter Hamersma will retire and resign as Programme Director for the BSc Molecular Science & Technology. His successor is Volkert van...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic14 July 2020A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...
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Leiden Observatory launches online summer programme for kids03 July 2020This summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...
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First Advisory Board meeting Legal Technologies programme03 July 2020In The Hague, the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) in close collaboration with the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) is developing a Legal Te...
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Europe to foster the Social-Economical Impact of Astronomy02 July 2020The European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (E-ROAD) has held its first conference session at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting of the Eur...
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Master student Maddalena Centanni awarded with Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize18 June 2020Former masterstudent Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Maddalena Centanni will be awarded the 2020 Arenberg Coimbra Prize for Erasmus Students. Centanni spe...
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‘We add a bit of escape room to our lessons’17 June 2020Tommy Hopstaken and Jochem Haverhoek run an escape room in Kruithuisje, a medieval tower on what was once the perimeter canal in Leiden. They are also...