450 news items found
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Update Executive Board: 'These are difficult times for us all' 03 December 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Smart programming for the quantum computer that does not exist yet 03 December 2024
Designing innovative algorithms, thinking outside the box, and brainstorming over coffee with his colleagues — this is what physicist Stefano Polla en...
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Launch of LDE Space & Society Honours: ‘I hope students learn they need each other’ 29 November 2024
Connecting space to society and gaining problem-solving experience: that’s the goal of LDE Space & Society, a new honours programme for bachelor’s stu...
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‘A good teacher always has multiple ways to explain the same concept’ 29 November 2024
Assistant professor Joost Willemse firmly believes that as a teacher, you’re never done learning. ‘Students ask questions about things you’ve never th...
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‘Science isn’t about memorising a textbook’ 29 November 2024
How do you engage students? Sander van Kasteren knows how to do that like no other. ‘He compares immune cells to Pokémon and doesn’t just give informa...
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‘A few nerves before lectures show that my work matters’ 29 November 2024
Giving an incorrect answer as a student in a packed lecture hall can be nerve-wracking. But with Pharmacology teacher Rob van Wijk, you don’t need to ...
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Several Leiden Science students excel and win KHMW Young Talent awards 29 November 2024
A true shower of awards for students from the Faculty of Science during the annual KHMW Young Talent Awards ceremony. On Monday, 25 November, no less ...
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’ 27 November 2024
The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture. She held up a mirror to those p...
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The solution to antibiotic resistance might be under our feet 26 November 2024
Biologist Nataliia Machushynets felt like she was ‘looking for a needle in a haystack’, trying to find new antibiotics to help solve the problem of re...
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Dust inhibits shock wave in iconic group of galaxies 26 November 2024
The shock wave triggered by one of the five galaxies making up the iconic Stephan’s Quintet appears to be less disruptive than previously thought, wit...
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University working hard to create a safer work and study environment 26 November 2024
Since the demonstration over a year ago on the Wijnhaven campus, Leiden University has developed plans and initiatives to create the safest possible w...
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‘Are you OK?’ Student rowing club Pelargos wins Student Well-being Award 26 November 2024
Are you OK? This question aims to help make unwelcome behaviour easier to talk about. Student rowing club Pelargos made a personal variant on the nati...
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Farewell to Martijn Ridderbos: ‘We can’t do it alone’ 26 November 2024
In his leaving interview, Martijn Ridderbos doesn’t have to think long when asked what he is most proud of. ‘Bringing people together; creating things...
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Protest against higher education cuts: ‘This government is turning its back on the world’ 25 November 2024
Over 20,000 students, lecturers, administrators, support staff and many others protested on 25 November against the plans to make billions of cuts to ...
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From collagen to canvas: interactive artwork brings the world between our cells to life 25 November 2024
What’s really happening in the space between the cells in your body? With the Collagen Canvas project, students from Leiden University invite you to e...