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Students wanted for Msc topics at the Institute of Environmental Sciences 20 February 2018
Students searched for MSc Internships under the following topics: 1. Understanding temporal variability in functional biodiversity and 2. Characteriza...
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Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro 29 January 2018
The ‘Stans Prize 2017' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Davide De Mauro. Other CML prizes were ...
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Area studies of the Minor Sustainable Development in four countries 26 January 2018
Every January, students of the Minor Sustainable Development have the opportunity to put what they’ve learned over the last few months into practice i...
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Good-natured twins on the secret jungles in the city 17 January 2018
In Dutch TV programme Early Birds, Marvin and Kevin Groen (26) showed viewers areas of nature in the city that often go unnoticed. These good-natured...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017
Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Change Make Challenge Award for Biology Master student: Gayathri Jaikumar 27 March 2017
Gayathri Jaikamur has been awarded by the Dopper Foundation in the Change Make Challenge. She is a student of Masters Biology (Specialisation: Evolut...
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Dr. Constance Eikelenboom (1921 – 2017) 21 March 2017
Mrs. Dr. Constance (Stans) Eikelenboom passed away on Sunday, March 12th, at the age of 95. She was the founder of the 'Stans Award', a prize which ev...
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Rise in temperature impacts mountain ecosystem 26 January 2017
Higher temperatures are resulting in changes to vegetation and soil in mountain areas throughout the world. An international research team including L...
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Stans Prize 2016 for Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha 23 January 2017
The ‘Stans Prize 2016' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha. Other CML pr...
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Winter school on 'tropical biodiversity and sustainability' in Indonesia 20 January 2017
In the presence of the ambassador for the Netherlands, Rob Swartbol, and the rector of Universitas Indonesia Muhammad Anis, the winter school on tropi...
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Support the Living Lab for research on hazardous compounds in 36 ditches 19 September 2016
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University started crowdfunding to raise 15.000 euro to build a laboratory in natur...
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Start Minor Sustainable Development 08 September 2016
Monday 5 September the eighth edition of the interdisciplinary Minor Sustainable Development started. With 65 students coming from more than 20 differ...
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Students searching for biological ways to prevent tundra fires 05 September 2016
In August-September 2016 three CML students are doing an exciting field work in sub-arctic tundra in Sweden in collaboration with Ümea University.
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The African lion consists of two subspecies 17 March 2015
Biologist Laura Bertola argues that the traditional separation of lions into African and Asian subspecies is incorrect. She has discovered that Africa...