534 search results for “plant and media” in the Student website
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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Chris FlintermanFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ChesalFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Lenny van Rosmalen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Unique ‘penis plant’ flowers at Hortus
Amorphophallus decus-silvae, or the ‘penis plant’ as it is known, has just flowered at the Hortus botanicus. It flowered for two days, and then the pollen, which the male flowers produced was collected. As far as the plant experts at the Hortus can tell, this was just the third time that this species…
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Ellen CieraadFaculty of Science
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Janine PrinsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wei Ping YoungFaculty of Archaeology
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Plants and planets
The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus botanicus on 7 February.
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Barbara GravendeelFaculty of Science
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Kiki SpaninksFaculty of Science
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Martijn BezemerFaculty of Science
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Sofia GomesFaculty of Science
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Peace, Democracy, and Media Conference 2025
Conference, Just Peace Festival
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Sticky insects: plants protected with biological glue
Drained leaves and plants stripped bare. Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.
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Marieke ElfferichFaculty of Science
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Daisy SmeetsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Twan Huys lecturer Journalism and New Media
Television presenter and journalist Twan Huys will be a lecturer in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University from 1 September 2024.
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’
For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus
The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.
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Leiden archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of plant food processing
A new study carried out by Leiden archaeologists Hadar Ahituv and Amanda Henry, together with international colleagues, reports the identification and analysis of 650 starch grains preserved on basalt percussive tools (anvils and hammerstones) found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These…
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Wild plants through the lens of a biologist
What started with an old Soviet camera and a darkroom in London grew into a lifelong passion. Developmental biologist Michael Richardson has been capturing nature - from wild coastal plants to microscopic details in the lab - since his childhood.
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope
Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasingly be able to adapt to survive. How do you make plants more stress-resistant? For this purpose, researchers from Leiden, along with other universities,…
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Kevin BretscherFaculty of Science
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Peiyan QinFaculty of Science
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Peng SunFaculty of Science
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
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Farzad AslaniFaculty of Science
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Xinya PanFaculty of Science
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Martijn Manders and the media fascination with “Klein Hollandia“
Recently, we have witnessed an increased interest of the public and media in the hidden world of underwater archaeology sparked by the identification of a shipwreck as "Klein Hollandia". The research was a joint effort of a team of British and Dutch maritime archaeologists with one familiar face from…
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Grant for research on politics and play: ‘In both cases, a world is created’
How do politics and play relate to each other? Six Leiden academics hope to find an answer to that question over the coming years. They have received an NWO grant of 750,000 euros. Professor Sybille Lammes and University Lecturer Bram tell us how they plan to spend the money.
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Siamak AnvaritutunchiFaculty of Humanities
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ISGA researchers in international media
Terrorism, crisis, violence, intelligence, diplomacy, war and peace are topics that are broadly covered in ISGA's research activities. Regularly, ISGA researchers appear in international media to discuss their research expertise. This item offers an overview of non-Dutch and non-English articles and…
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Han van Konijnenburg
Faculty of Science
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Tommy van AvermaeteLeiden University Libraries
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Clara Bik
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Paul KesslerFaculty of Science
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Emily StrangeFaculty of Science
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Pascal NuijtenFaculty of Science
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Ili MaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sandra IrmischFaculty of Science