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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year05 January 2023Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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'This course is a simulation of your professional work as an astronomer'03 January 2023What if I completely changed everything? A subject without lectures or exams, where the right answer is not important and where students work with the...
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'This is the very best course there is'02 January 2023Martina Vijver has been nominated as Teacher of the Year of the Faculty of Science. She gets this nomination for the course Ecotoxicology she taught i...
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Why electric vehicle batteries are good and bad for the environment20 December 2022The large-scale production of batteries for electric vehicles diminishes the emission reductions achieved by driving electric vehicles. Industrial eco...
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Helping cancer patients with treatment choices20 December 2022Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are collaborating on the development of a conversation tool for patients with...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray19 December 2022Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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'Science works better when you are diverse'09 December 2022Aske Plaat is the scientific director of LIACS, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Systems. He is also an ambassador for Leiden University's LG...
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Nobel Prize winner visited Leiden: 'We have hosted a scientific rockstar'08 December 2022On 28 September the famous chemists Carolyn Bertozzi visited Leiden University to speak at the LED3 seminar. Just one week later, she was announced wi...
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Nobel Prize for quantum physics: the circle for Bell's theorem is complete08 December 2022This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to quantum physics research. The prize will be awarded on December 10 in Stockholm. Physicist Bas Hensen expla...
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Combining art and science in the recovery of Ukraine08 December 2022How wonderful would it be to use art, technology and science in Ukraine's recovery? Young Ukrainians currently residing in Poland get guidance to deve...
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Photo of fish in Covid glove on shortlist for prestigious nature prize02 December 2022With his photo of a fish trapped in a rubber glove, external PhD candidate Auke-Florian Hiemstra has made it to the shortlist for the People’s Choice ...
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Martina Vijver wins NWO Athena Award for outstanding female researchers02 December 2022
‘She is an example to young researchers who are beginning to find their career path’, wrote the jury of the NWO Athena Award about Professor of Ecotox...
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane01 December 2022Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bi...