450 news items found
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‘When you work together, you get a much broader understanding’ 20 June 2023
At the Capstone Conference, Honours College students of the Humanities Lab presented their final projects. In small groups, they conducted research on...
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Leiden PhD student discovers thin atmosphere on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c with JWST 20 June 2023
A group of astronomers led by Leiden PhD student Sebastian Zieba has discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that the rocky exoplanet T...
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University concerned about minister’s plans to curb internationalisation 16 June 2023
Leiden University is concerned about the plans presented by Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf to limit English-taught cours...
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Leiden through the student lens: Student Loïs de Jong wins Leiden Media Contest 15 June 2023
A TikTok by student Loïs de Jong from Leiden University in which Leiden sparkles as a student city won the final of the Leiden Media Contest on 13 Jun...
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From bachelor student to entrepreneur: card game about elementary particles an unexpected hit 15 June 2023
A Christmas present that got out of hand: that's what prompted physics student Serafine Beugelink to start her own company. Her card game about elemen...
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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience? 15 June 2023
Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on th...
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Prize for production of sustainable rose smell 14 June 2023
Sustainable rose smell that can be produced on a large scale. Tobias Fecker made this into a possibility during his master's thesis, which was a colla...
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Rein Dool painting to move to more public space in the Academy Building 13 June 2023
The Rein Dool painting depicting board members of Leiden University will be moving soon to the Reception Room in the Academy Building, where more peo...
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’ 13 June 2023
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to ...
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Inspired teaching without the administrative hassle 12 June 2023
In his inaugural lecture Professor of Molecular Microbiology Dennis Claessen will explain how lecturer enthusiasm can be contagious. And how as a prog...
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Jasper's day 08 June 2023
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, J...
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'Here I can grow in both science and art' 08 June 2023
A passion for video games, visuals and science: it almost seems impossible to bring all of this together. Yet, scientific animator Vera Williams found...
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Honours Conference brings ‘equally ambitious students’ together 06 June 2023
At the Honours Conference, honours students shared interesting projects and valuable lessons learned during their honours education. As icing on the c...
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'Maths is just plain fun' 06 June 2023
Gianne Derks is the MI’s new scientific director from 1 May. She has worked abroad longer than in the Netherlands and, after more than 27 years in Sur...
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer 06 June 2023
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...