496 search results for “more care the search” in the Student website
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Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics
With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden PhD candidate Alexander Kloosterman searched genomes of bacteria and found clusters of DNA that code for proteins that have an antibiotic effect. ‘This new…
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Caring responsibilities
Acting as a carer takes a lot of time and energy. If this causes you to fall behind in your studies or experience other difficulties, you can request support from the university.
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During the next pandemic, this mathematical model will speed up the search for treatment
Do you recall all those drugs that were hastily proposed as potential treatments for COVID-19? In the event of a future pandemic, the goal is to offer an effective treatment more quickly and efficiently. To achieve this, a team led by Coen van Hasselt is developing a platform that can speed up the process…
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Techtip: Search trough all databases with one search engine
ICT
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Why search engines and chatbots are becoming more alike
Search engines are getting better at answering our questions. And chatbots are increasingly likely to search the internet for relevant sources. ‘Search engines and chatbots will become more closely entwined’, says Professor Suzan Verberne.
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Harriet VermeerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rosalinde SpittersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Paul VedderFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Femmie JufferFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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A smarter way to search for antibiotics
Bacteria carry countless hidden treasures in their DNA: fragments that could hold the key to new medicines. But how do you pick out the most promising ones from millions of options? ‘Look at the switches that turn genes on and off,’ says molecular biologist Gilles van Wezel.
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Joep SteegmansFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daisy SmeetsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rik SchalbroeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Fien SteenbergenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lara Gröschel-Everts -
Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
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Edwin de BeursFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Liesbeth van VlietFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ewout SteyerbergFaculty of Medicine
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. ‘We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.’
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Tanja AhlinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lenneke AlinkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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A foldable smartphone? STIBNITE searched for the perfect semiconductor
Roll-up solar panels, bendable phone displays, or better computer chips… The EU project STIBNITE investigated the next generation of semiconductors, made from organic materials based on carbon, nitrogen, and boron. The project has now concluded. During the Open Science Debate on 1 July, the group will…
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GP and healthcare insurances
Hopefully it won’t be necessary but should need to access healthcare during your studies, you can find all the necessary contact information here. Make sure you also have adequate health insurance. This is a legal requirement in the Netherlands. We also highly recommend that you take out liability i…
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Amalia Campos DelgadoFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter de KnijffFaculty of Medicine
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Mathijs DeenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anouk GoemansFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bacteria full of potential: searching for new antibiotics through genetic on–off switches
Collaborating and learning from other fields – that is what bioinformatician Hannah Augustijn enjoys most about doing research. During her PhD at Leiden University, she developed new ways to search within bacteria for the antibiotics of the future.
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Come and visit us!
As a university, we offer you the best education you can get. Professors, tutors and lecturers are ready to teach and guide you. But we do more than that. Of course, studying is your own responsibility, but we are happy to help if you need support. You decide what and when; online or on campus. These…
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University discontinuing allowance for De Kattekop Day Care Centre
Organisation, Human resources
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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Lucas GahrmannFaculty of Humanities
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Daniela Vicherat MattarFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Where to turn
We are on hand to offer you help and advice in a range of different ways. On this page you can find out where and to who you can turn, depending on your situation.
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Statement from the Executive board: taking care of one another
The world is currently beset by many problems. The armed conflict and continuing violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories is resulting in numerous casualties. This is giving rise to many emotions and reactions worldwide, and also greatly affecting our own university community. We have seen…
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Jorre TheFaculty of Science
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Keara The
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Inger SchipperFaculty of Medicine
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More pubs on campus? Here's why students and staff care
There should be more social meeting places on our campus. That's one of the outcomes of to the second brainstorming session on the strategic plan. On Tuesday, education and the campus took centre stage during the meeting in Corpus. Professor and programme director Miranda van Eck and student assessor…
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Annemarie SamuelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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'We are only content when everything is taken care of'
Two organisers at heart. In the background, facilities managers Nick van Asperen and Kees Schoonwater ensure that staff and students have everything they need to work and study well. Recently, the familiar faces started doing so in a new role. Schoonwater is now project manager housing and Van Asperen…
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Leiden physicists search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle
Is it possible to measure subtle oscillations caused by dark matter moving through the earth? A Dutch-American physicist team have discovered a new route toward what could be the first-ever measurement of ultralight dark matter. They suspended a microscopic magnet inside a superconducting enclosure,…
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Leiden joins EU effort to unite Europe’s cancer research networks
The more data from cancer research we pool, the better we can search for new treatments. But how can we keep patient data safe when sharing it? Leiden researchers will tackle this challenge in a major European project.
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Mattijs NumansFaculty of Medicine
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Mirjam Sombroek-van DoormFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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In search of an alternative to GDP that actually measures happiness and well-being
How do you really measure how a country is doing? Researcher Annegeke Jansen is looking for alternatives to gross domestic product (GDP) to assess the state of society. As an economist, she focuses on well-being, inclusivity, and a healthier environment. ‘The economy should be a tool to achieve those…
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Friedo DekkerFaculty of Medicine
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.