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Marnix Medema new visiting professor Van der Klaauw chair01 May 2020The Institute of Biology Leiden has a new visiting professor as of the first of May. Bioinformatician Marnix Medema holds the Van der Klaauw chair for...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace29 April 2020For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Digital dissection and remote microscopy lessons03 April 2020Due to the corona crisis, they had to switch to online education halfway during their course: associate professor Marcel Schaaf and PhD candidate Mich...
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From field work by boat to excel sheets: how the corona virus is impacting education01 April 2020Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver had planned an eight-week field work course for her students, but the corona virus threw a spanner in the wo...
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‘I always thought I was immune to stress, but now I’m not so sure’26 March 2020Lecturers had a week to move their courses online. An enormous challenge because remote teaching definitely wasn’t commonplace at Leiden University. S...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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CML Stans Prize 201912 February 2020CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
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A real professor in the classroom07 February 2020A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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‘A good lecturer treats students as young professionals from the start’20 January 2020Passionate, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our education. Janine Geerling, former assistant professor of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sci...
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Martin van Hecke wins 2020 Dutch Physica Award09 January 2020The 2020 Physica Award has been awarded to physicist Martin van Hecke, a researcher at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) and the Amsterdam AMOLF....
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Parade of creative science communication products23 December 2019From bedtime stories about mathematics to podcasts about microplastics and games on weeds: master students from the Science Communication & Society tr...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next level23 December 2019Early December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Students make podcasts about micro- and bioplastics20 December 2019Four Master's students Science Communication & Society made two podcasts on the theme Plastic for the end project of their study programme. With the p...
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Leiden University as source of inspiration for new Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science10 December 2019Across Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka there is an urgent need for appropriate educational programmes that develop skills in data science and artifi...