News
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity15 October 2020The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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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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How the scientific community can learn from failures08 October 2020The Astronomy & Society group of Leiden Observatory takes a new turn in science: they have decided to share their rejected research proposals with the...
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Hortus Leiden helps to protect plant diversity around the world01 October 2020The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, a world-wide effort by the botanist and plant protection community, is making considerable progress in pro...
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Hiroshima Peace Tree comes to Blekerspark24 September 2020On 23 September, the Leiden alderman for the Management of Public Space was presented with a Ginkgo Biloba in the Blekerspark. This special 'Peace Tre...
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Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface waters24 September 2020On 24 September the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden will launch the new version of the Pesticides Atlas in cooperation with Rijksw...
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples24 September 2020How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Dark matter with a hint of Leiden shines at Dublin gallery21 September 2020A glittering visualisation of dark matter by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. The install...
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Leiden University and LUMC strengthen ties with Janssen pharmaceutical company17 September 2020Leiden University, the LUMC and Janssen have signed a partnership agreement stating that they will collaborate in different areas, including infectiou...
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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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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?07 September 2020Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Six Months, Six Strings04 August 2020KM3NeT is a giant undersea neutrino detector, being deployed in the Mediterreanean Sea. Recently, it hit a six-fold milestone, celebrated with a fitti...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research15 July 2020Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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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...