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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students09 December 2019Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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The most popular articles of 201909 December 2019From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are some of our most popular articles of 2019.
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Connect four: bachelor mathematics labelled excellent for the fourth time06 December 2019For the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...
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Stefano Polla wins Lorentz Master thesis award26 November 2019Stefano Pollas master thesis 'Quantum Digital Cooling' has been awarded the Lorentz Master thesis award. The award, 3000 euros and a certificate, has ...
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Master's students Data Science present solutions to central government and the House of Representatives20 November 2019On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior off...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong15 November 2019Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid protein12 November 2019The Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
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A Dutch podcast about physics31 October 2019New: Een Podcast over Natuurkunde, a podcast about Leiden physics. In the first episode, Dirk van Delft tells about the Hendrik Antoon Lorentz biograp...
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Annual LION physics image award31 October 2019Finally, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award. Send us your most impressive, beautiful or insightful physics image, and win eternal fame on ...
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?22 October 2019The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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The art of being a teacher08 October 2019How to keep 80 students with different backgrounds motivated for 3 hours? Stefano Cucurachi knows how! By incorporating current developments, lively d...
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition10 September 2019On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans02 September 2019Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...