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Leiden Lockdown Lab Lore17 June 2020Leiden Lockdown Lab Lore is a series of short youtube videos aimed at keeping physicists lab instincts alive during the lockdown. This time, we have a...
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Teacher of the year 2019 Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd is always ready to answer questions15 June 2020Last January, the education assessors of the different study associations chose Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Resear...
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Video message from Dean Michiel Kreutzer: ‘Stay strong’12 June 2020The corona crisis was initially a sprint, but has now become a marathon, says Dean Michiel Kreutzer in a video message to employees and students. Whil...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision01 June 2020Lions 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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How these three students experience education from home28 May 2020A lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themsel...
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Marnix Medema new visiting professor Van der Klaauw chair01 May 2020The Institute of Biology Leiden has a new visiting professor as of the first of May. Bioinformatician Marnix Medema holds the Van der Klaauw chair for...
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Remote teaching: what does work and what doesn’t according to teachers?30 April 2020Remote teaching is the ‘new normal’. But does it work for everyone? That is the question. Teacher A doesn’t seem to have any problems, but teacher B m...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace29 April 2020For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Digital dissection and remote microscopy lessons03 April 2020Due to the corona crisis, they had to switch to online education halfway during their course: associate professor Marcel Schaaf and PhD candidate Mich...
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From field work by boat to excel sheets: how the corona virus is impacting education01 April 2020Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver had planned an eight-week field work course for her students, but the corona virus threw a spanner in the wo...
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‘I always thought I was immune to stress, but now I’m not so sure’26 March 2020Lecturers had a week to move their courses online. An enormous challenge because remote teaching definitely wasn’t commonplace at Leiden University. S...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Looking for dangers in the lab in virtual reality17 March 2020
In a virtual reality environment, Science students learned about the dangers of working in a lab, and how to deal with them safely. It was the first t...
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CML Stans Prize 201912 February 2020CML 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...