82 search results for “light” in the Student website
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Leiden biologists find nanoplastics in developing heart
Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos sheds new light on how these tiny plastic particles pose a threat to our health.
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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How a healing field trip inspired Alexia to take the stage at TEDxLeidenUniversity
One day you feel inspired by a field trip, the next you are a speaker at TEDxLeidenUniversity. It happened to International Relations student Alexia. How did she end up on stage – and why did she want to? Alexia shares her story with us. ‘I was given hope, and I wanted to share it with others.’
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy?
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- In Praise of Solidarity - World Refugee Day 2024
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Painting and Drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Singing Techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city
‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-person day of the EL CID on 16 August, which could easily have spoiled this impression. But fortunately the showers – apart from one – fell somewhere else,…
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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Painting with techniques inspired by old masters
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Workshop Christmas painting
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Portrait/Figure drawing
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A conversation with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Lecture
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Painting Winter Landscapes with techniques of the Old Masters
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
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Painting summer landscapes
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Painting with Acrylics
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Performative Photography (mix of photography & art performance)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Unwinding your spine: A somatic approach to the spine in motion
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Urban sketching
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be
Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of those benefits. To rectify that, a Leiden PhD candidate and a student – armed with a cargo bike – are using The Hague as a life-size laboratory.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.
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PhD training Case Study and Comparative Methods
Research
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Meijerssymposium 2024
Conference
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Navigating the Unpredictable: Climate Chaos and the Future of Water
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Workshop Drawing Salt
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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An introduction to Performance art (live art)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Leiden University's Winter Weeks
Student wellbeing
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Hosting Global Justice: The Netherlands and International Courts (ICJ & ICC)
Lecture, Studium Generale