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Carel Stolker: 'It's a no-brainer: the opportunity just has to be seized!'Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) has been in existence for almost six years and will be entering its second phase in 2019. What course will the alliance tak...
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Ewine van Dishoeck in Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced StudyThe Institute for Advanced Study has appointed astronomer and chemist Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck to its Board of Trustees, effective 5 May, 2018.
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How China will reduce its carbon impactRon Yuang, PhD candidate from the Institute of Environmental Sciences investigated the impact of the renewable energy expansion on China’s carbon emi...
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Lucia Bossoni in NewsweekNewsweek has published a story on Leiden Alzheimer research led by physicist Lucia Bossoni.
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Students solve spider mystery in BorneoThey sprayed with corn starch and made detailed drawings of the genitalia of spiders. In different ways students studied spiders in the dense tropical...
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Floris Tan contributes to Case-law Guide on Article 18 ECHRThe European Court of Human Rights has published a Case-law Guide on Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Case-law Guides series...
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‘The Tahiti Sandpiper is my Night Watch’'In 1800, French explorer Nicolas Baudin led an important scientific expedition to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa. He returned ...
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Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better'Enya Seguin is an idealist. This 22-year-old alumna of Leiden University College in The Hague wants to make it possible for patients in Africa to have...
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The best exam tips from Leiden’s student psychologistsAre you a school or university student, and do you feel very anxious before and during exams? Take advantage of these tips by Leiden student psycholog...
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Pieters Corner: The stressed societyStress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...
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Use of nouns delays speechWhy do we sometimes speak more slowly or more rapidly, and why do we sometimes have a longer pause between uttering particular words? This has to do w...
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Relaunch MOOC: 'The Importance and Power of Music in our Society'This Spring we relaunched our free online course The Importance and Power of Music in our Society.
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From a lecture to a whole day of archaeology field techniquesUntil last year the Archaeology Field Techniques programme for first-year students consisted of a number of two-hour lectures. Now they spend a whole ...
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Fifty Shades of StressThe challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination....
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New website research programme Digital SocietyOn 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.