450 news items found
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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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'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...
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Take a sneak peek at the new Gorlaeus building 05 June 2023
Want to see how the most important building on our Science Campus at Leiden Bio Science Park is taking shape? Come and find out on Construction Day (D...
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What tiny isotopes reveal about planets outside our solar system 01 June 2023
Planets existing in other solar systems contain invaluable information about the origin of planets and life. PhD candidate Yapeng Zhang has studied th...
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How to make cryptographic techniques more efficient? 01 June 2023
Sharing scientific data, transferring money, or sending other sensitive information online: with cryptography, applications make sure your data does n...
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Applications that never crash again 31 May 2023
Doing your taxes, Netflixing or driving a car: more and more daily activities are supported by computer applications. It is challenging and expensive ...
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners 30 May 2023
X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as ...
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A quirky block of rubber as a calculator 30 May 2023
PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023
Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...