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LUC- project UNPLASTIC wins Dopper Changemaker ChallengeUNPLASTIC, a research project by Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) won the Dopper Changemaker Challenge 2019. LUC student Roos Kolkman represe...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materialsThe recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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Andrea Evers wins Stevin Prize for knowledge exchange and impactAndrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University, has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific awar...
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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centreHe is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...
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Divine Encounters in Asia – a photo exhibitionPhotographs of sacred rituals and ceremonies in Asia by Bangkok-based photographer and author Hans Kemp can be seen in the front hall of the Leiden To...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared futureRector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen scienceLocal residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Leiden physics acquires original HorndeskiThe Leiden physics institute LION has bought a painting by the American physicist Gregory Horndeski, who wrote a brilliant article about gravity in 19...
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Leiden University College to receive funding for diversity projectThe Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven revealed on Thursday 13 June 2019 which projects will receive funding from the ...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projectsThe Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...
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Focus on extended essays: Leiden University’s Academic ChallengeFor most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...
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Member of Parliament Tielen (VVD) visits the Faculty of HumanitiesAsia, Asia, Asia. That was what the working visit of VVD Member of Parliament Judith Tielen - at her request - was all about. In a two hour long progr...
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'It is important to have discussions about topics that not everybody agrees on'Today Mikhail Khordorkovsky visits the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time ...
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Refugees build a new future in LeidenSolafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leid...
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Digesting the EU elections over a continental breakfastThe topic of conversation at The Great Continental Breakfast the morning after the EU elections in the Netherlands was the election campaign, the – la...