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New BA Urban Studies: How to keep cities liveable04 September 2018By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in cities. This has major consequences for the lives of city-dwellers and for the environment...
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New Science assessor cares for mental health students01 September 2018More attention for internationalisation, diversity, but also the mental health of students: that’s what Marleen van Dorst would like to see change. As...
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‘I try to make my students enthusiastic about the subject’16 August 2018‘My lectures have to be as enjoyable as possible for the students, even when they're about the drier parts of maths.' Robert-Jan Kooman is one of the ...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science15 August 2018Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Students hunting for breakthrough in antibiotics resistance14 August 2018Bacteria that fluoresce green, blue or red may play a role in combatting resistance against antibiotics. Under the motto of 'Say yes to stress', thir...
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Enthusiastic start to EL CID13 August 2018More than 3,500 enthusiastic Leiden first-years, 80% of them coming to Leiden University, gathered on Monday morning 13 August at the Lammermarkt for...
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A step closer to sustainable energy from seawater10 August 2018The research group headed by Leiden chemist Marc Koper has discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water elect...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars07 August 2018Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision06 August 2018"I did not know that I could become even more proud of you." Kristian Rietveld's father responded to the news that his son was appointed Teacher of th...
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From scientific idea to promising new drug30 July 2018Many pharmaceutical companies no longer have their own lab and are working more closely with universities and start-ups of scientists. Professor of Sc...
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Beijing Normal University visits Leiden for Astronomy Summer School26 July 2018The Leiden Observatory was very pleased to welcome eight bachelor’s students from Beijing Normal University at 8 July for the BNU Astronomy Summer Sch...
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Tapping new markets for rapid DNA unraveller19 July 2018Researching DNA material for genetic disorders using the most powerful apparatus. This is what GenomeScan, a company on the Leiden Bio Science Park, d...
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Thinking outside your scientific box19 June 2018How do you study complex disasters like a nuclear explosion or a natural disaster? Who can help unravel the legal knot that Brexit has become? The imp...
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species08 June 2018‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly ...
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Move of SRON space research institute to South Holland now official30 May 2018By adding their signature to the collaboration agreement on 31 May, Leiden University, TU Delft, space research institute SRON and NWO confirmed the...