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In search of an alternative to GDP that actually measures happiness and well-beingChangemakers 13 May 2025How do you really measure how a country is doing? Researcher Annegeke Jansen is looking for alternatives to gross domestic product (GDP) to assess the...
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Joop Schaye appointed as KNAW member: ‘A great honour’08 May 2025Joop Schaye, Professor of The formation of galaxies, has been elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He wil...
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‘Wetenschapswonders’ brings science to life for primary school pupils in LeidenSHOW 07 May 2025On 17 June, primary school pupils in Leiden will get the chance to explore science in an interactive and engaging way. The exciting new show ‘Wetensch...
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Live: protest in Wijnhaven building Leiden University06 May 2025Around 1:00 p.m., a group of more than one hundred pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the The Hague campus. Participants chanted slogans and put u...
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Man-made antibodies may change the future of drug development – here’s whyImpactmakers 01 May 2025Sometimes an idea seems so logical and elegant at first glance, that you later wonder why no one thought of it before. Two researchers from LACDR have...
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Curious, not guided by role models: Kim Bonger appointed professor24 April 2025As of this month, Kim Bonger has been appointed Professor of Chemical Biology. As a first-generation academic, she’s especially grateful. ‘I wasn’t ex...
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Professorship marks the ticking off of an important milestone for Silvestriappointment 24 April 2025Alessandra Silvestri has been appointed professor in Theoretical Physics in the area of Cosmology. For her this promotion in Leiden is the icing on th...
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Call for Nominations Now Open – Krijn Rietveld Memorial Awards 202523 April 2025The Leiden University Fund and dsm-firmenich are proud to open the call for the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Awards 2025. These annual prizes honour innova...
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Common insecticide damages freshwater ecosystems22 April 2025The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought. It can disrupt the lives of freshwater invertebrates and their communi...
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Five questions for Thijs Bosker about Local Actions22 April 2025Sustainability challenges don’t just call for environmental scientists – they require expertise from many academic fields. Thijs Bosker and Paul Behre...
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Article from 1984 remains a hit: citation count passes 10,000Mijlpaal 16 April 2025It was already the most cited publication ever written at our faculty, but now a new milestone has been reached. Last month, a paper by emeritus profe...
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Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025PHYSICS 07 April 2025Fifty euros, a place on the LION photo wall and eternal fame: this is what the winner of the annual LION Image Award gets. This year, the prize goes t...
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New Horizons in Physics prize for Sebastiaan Haffert: ‘Very honoured’Scientific prize 07 April 2025‘The Oscars of the natural sciences’, is what they are called: the Breakthrough Prizes awarded annually in America by the Breakthrough Foundation. Par...
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Chemistry as the key to medical innovationMilestone 31 March 2025Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison...
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Over a million euros for two studies on solutions to antimicrobial resistanceHealthcare 18 March 2025Two consortia led by Leiden researchers have been awarded over one million euros by the Dutch Research Council and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and...