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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 50On International Women’s Day 2020, the first edition of the Leiden Top 50 was revealed, a list of 50 women who made a difference in Leiden in 2019. Am...
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CML Stans Prize 2019CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
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A real professor in the classroomA school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Progress is about much more than GDP aloneEnvironmental economist Rutger Hoekstra is a guest researcher at Leiden University. He is studying the question of how we can measure societal progres...
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The city as an urban mineRaw materials should no longer be excavated from mines, but reused from sources that are already present, such as unused underground electricity cable...
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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forcesCan students help make our cities more sustainable and resilient? The Resilient Cities Hub thinks so: during its knowledge café on 16 January, passion...
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From camel keeper to doctorTwo terrifying yellow eyes stared at eleven-year-old Francis Lesilau. In the evening light they changed colour: green, amber, back to yellow... The li...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next levelEarly December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economyA new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
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GDP? Get rid of it!Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprintA recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
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Plastic Spotter: spot plastic in the canals of LeidenHelp us spot and clean up the plastic in the canals of Leiden! Leiden University is calling on the good folk of Leiden to help our researchers study t...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animalsThe national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited listSeventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.