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Maarten Schrama elected Teacher of the Year 2021 14 June 2022
Maarten Schrama (CML) has won the Teacher of the Year Award 2021. During a lunch with fellow nominees, Schrama received a cheque worth 5,000 euros fro...
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New measuring method reveals: more plastic ón than ín your salad 20 January 2022
It's now possible to measure how many plastic particles there are in our food. Chinese scientists and Leiden professor Willie Peijnenburg applied thei...
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Ecologist Emilia Hannula receives Gold Medal in Teylers Museum 23 November 2021
Soil ecologists Emilia Hannula (Leiden) and Elly Morriën (UvA) received the Golden Medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap on 5 November. They received th...
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Back to the Faculty with lecturer Alexander van Oudenhoven 05 October 2021
Last year he became Teacher of the Year because of his innovative and online teaching, now Alexander van Oudenhoven has to change course again and tea...
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Living Lab moves: first new ditches dug 08 September 2021
Leiden University’s Living Lab is moving to the middle of the Leiden Bio Science Park. In the lab’s new home between the University of Applied Science...
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Sustainability and energy: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam 29 June 2021
From energy transition to the nitrogen crisis: artificial intelligence can be of great help. Researchers from the three universities in Zuid-Holland a...
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New software for designing sustainable cities 21 June 2021
By 2050, more than 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. A group of International researchers has developed software that shows c...
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Habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming 15 March 2021
The habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming, mainly due to rising water temperatures. This is the conclusion of a study l...
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Ecologist Michiel Veldhuis is the Discoverer of the Year 2020 25 February 2021
Michiel Veldhuis received the most public votes for the C.J. Kok Public Award and may therefore call himself Discoverer of the Year. Veldhuis research...
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Nanoparticles: shapeshifters that pass along the food chain and end up in the brain 09 February 2021
Nanomaterials can pass much further along the food chain than was previously thought. The particles can change shape and size in each organism, enabli...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers 09 December 2020
From fake news via WhatsApp to mini hearts from a 3D printer: four Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research ...
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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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Nutrient-rich water is heaven for disease-spreading mosquitoes 17 November 2020
When mosquito eggs hatch in nutrient-rich water, the mosquitoes are larger and they can also fly further. That is the first conclusion of a study from...
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Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface waters 24 September 2020
On 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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Why plants in wetlands are highly productive 09 September 2020
Environmental scientists in Leiden have found that the so-called leaf economics spectrum for plants can not only be applied to terrestrial ecosystems,...