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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong15 November 2019Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid protein12 November 2019The Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
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A Dutch podcast about physics31 October 2019New: Een Podcast over Natuurkunde, a podcast about Leiden physics. In the first episode, Dirk van Delft tells about the Hendrik Antoon Lorentz biograp...
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Annual LION physics image award31 October 2019Finally, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award. Send us your most impressive, beautiful or insightful physics image, and win eternal fame on ...
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?22 October 2019The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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The art of being a teacher08 October 2019How to keep 80 students with different backgrounds motivated for 3 hours? Stefano Cucurachi knows how! By incorporating current developments, lively d...
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition10 September 2019On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans02 September 2019Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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Campus The Hague in the picture26 August 2019Leiden University turned 444 this year, and we are celebrating this milestone with the residents of the two cities in which we have a presence: Leiden...
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Summer school in China: extreme heat and the Chinese Silicon Valley15 August 2019Going to school during the summer holidays? Some of our students accepted the challenge. And they didn’t do that just around the corner. During their ...
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Sugarcoating the search for a new vaccine01 August 2019A vaccine based on sugar coats does have the potential to combat a multi-resistant staphylococcus. That is what Jeroen Codée and his colleagues from U...
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Leiden students help children from The Hague: 'Now I can read and understand what I've read.'30 July 2019There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
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Wall formula about Huygens' pendulum painted on Leiden fire brigade tower16 July 2019The seventh Leiden wall formula has been finished. Over the last few weeks, mural artists Ben Walenkamp and Jan Willem Bruins have painted Christiaan ...