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Data Science courses for the Ministry of IenW increasingly successfulFor the past few years, the Leiden Centre of Data Science has been organizing courses on data science for employees of Ministry of Infrastructure and ...
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Experience one hundred years of astronomy at the Old ObservatoryHow big is the universe? How do stars form and evolve? And does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? These main questions in astronomy are the themes...
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo KoningHugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public i...
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Residents and researchers explore plastic and psychology in the cityThis year will see the start of not one but two citizen science projects in Leiden and The Hague. This is the outcome of a large survey among residen...
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Learning with the City: students to tackle challenges facing LeidenWhy do we give students fictional assignments when there is a multitude of real-world problems just waiting to be solved? Leiden University, Leiden Un...
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New section makes statistics understandable‘Statistics? I hated that hard subject in school’, statistician Sanne Willems is often told. And that is a pity, she thinks, because statistics doesn...
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Esther Philips elected as Chair of EARMAEsther Philips, grant advisor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, is the new Chair elect of the European Association for Research Managers and...
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'I get to continue my academic career': archaeologist who fled Damascus for LeidenGhazwan Yaghi was a leading archaeologist and researcher in Damascus but had to flee in 2014 because of the war. An NWO 'Refugees in Science' grant ha...
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Canal Run raises over €22,000 for charityA respectable 5,023 runners took part in the Leiden Canal Run on Friday 5 April. They raised the sum of €22,302 for various Leiden charities.
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Christa Tobler gives presentation about the use of ePortfolios as an assessment method in academic teachingOn 4 April 2019, the University of Basel held a conference on the subject of digitisation in academic teaching.
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Leiden researchers at hackathon data visualization in the House of RepresentativesOn March 20, 2019, a special meeting took place in the House of Representatives: a hackathon. The aim was to find solutions for better accessibility o...
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Martina Vijver on nanoparticles at Paradiso's Science & CocktailsProfessor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver of the Institute of Environmental Sciences has given a public talk at Paradiso Amsterdam for Science & Cockt...
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Lizah van der Aart makes glossy about PhD researchAfter four years of hard work, the time has finally come: your thesis is finished. But who of your family and friends will ever read it? Biologist Liz...
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Academy for Self-Management: from disabilities to abilitiesIf people with intellectual disabilities are given tailored training, this promotes self-management in their daily lives. They also need less support....
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Jaira Sona Chin: ‘My goal is to help families break out of the circle of poverty’Jaira Sona Chin (24) is a second-year student of the bachelor’s programme International Studies in The Hague. Three years ago, she founded her own NGO...