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Olympic gold for Industrial Ecology student Dirk Uittenbogaard 28 July 2021
Dirk Uittenbogaard, a student on the Delft-Leiden Master’s in Industrial Ecology, has won a gold medal for rowing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Uitte...
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Leiden students offer ideas on restoring an antique ship 08 March 2021
How do you go about the sustainable restoration of a nineteenth-century ship without affecting its historical worth? Leiden University students from t...
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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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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling 01 February 2021
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
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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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Three LUF grants for talented Leiden Science researchers 25 August 2020
Fighting against cancer, antibiotic resistance and disposable plastics: Ahmed Ali, Fredj Ben Bdira, and Valerio Barbarossa receive a LUF grant for the...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision 01 June 2020
Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 50 10 March 2020
On 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 2019 12 February 2020
CML 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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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forces 23 January 2020
Can 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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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next level 23 December 2019
Early December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’ 18 November 2019
Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
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Photo reportage on Leiden lion research in national newspaper 22 May 2019
Photographer Taco van der Eb accompanied Kenyan and Leiden researchers and students on a trip to Lake Nakuru National Park to record their conservatio...
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Master students Industrial Ecology selected for EU-project for sustainable start-ups 11 April 2019
Four students of the MSc Industrial Ecology have recently been selected to participate in the accelerator programme of the EIT Climate-KIC, which help...
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Online Experience 2.0 Urban Studies - City Biodiversity 21 February 2019
CML researchers Nadia Soudzilovskaia, Rene Kleijn, Stefano Cucurachi, and Kevin Groen are teaching about the links between city sustainability and bio...