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In Memoriam: Robert Louw 1936-2023 01 March 2023
On 18 February 2023, our esteemed former colleague Robert Louw passed away. Rob was 86 years old.
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ 27 February 2023
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Website full of interactive videos to improve your lab education 27 February 2023
To better prepare students for their laboratory education, a team of education experts and students have created a collection of interactive videos. A...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023
Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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Jan Reedijk receives honorary doctorate at Polish university 23 February 2023
He had been emeritus for 13 years when he suddenly received an email from Poland. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Jan Reedijk was awarded an honorar...
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The biologist who wants to sound a different note in his field 23 February 2023
Hans Slabbekoorn researches animal sounds and the effect of the noise we humans make on these animals. He is also committed to making his discipline m...
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Vici grant for research on the formation of galaxies 23 February 2023
How do galaxies form? That is what astronomer Mariska Kriek will be researching in the coming years. She received an NWO Vici grant of 1.5 million eur...
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Late physics professor from Leiden frontrunner on inclusion and diversity 23 February 2023
For years, the late professor Marten Durieux personally mentored and funded students from Sudan to study physics in the Netherlands. Colleague Sense J...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers 23 February 2023
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes 23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Why you should publish negative data 22 February 2023
As a bachelor student of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Femke Vlaswinkel wrote a research proposal she was allowed to carry out in her master’s BPS. Fem...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Is there oxygen on exoplanets? New telescope finds out 20 February 2023
To what extent does exoplanet Proxima b resemble our Earth? And is there some form of life present? Astronomers hope to find answers to these question...
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Joining hands to advance Dutch microscopy 20 February 2023
Advanced microscopy to understand life and fight disease: that’s the goal of the new NL-BioImaging network that will develop and integrate state-of-th...
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Finding the origin of giant black holes 20 February 2023
‘Space Antenna LISA will open an unprecedented window on the Universe,’ says astronomer Elena Maria Rossi. The mission will be the first one to detect...