717 search results for “is a and the world” in the Student website
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Geert de SnooFaculty of Science
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Patrick DegryseFaculty of Archaeology
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Femke FakkeldijFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik LenstraFaculty of Science
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Bart de SmitFaculty of Science
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Anna ScottFaculty of Humanities
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Marco Roos
Faculty of Science
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Victor Barros Correia
Faculty of Humanities
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Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye
Faculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Mamadou Togola
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Modibo Cisse
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Koos BiesmeijerFaculty of Science
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants
Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…
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Tom BarkhuysenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rowie StolkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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Pride is a celebration, but also a fight for visibility
‘Be yourself. Be as gay, queer, trans as you can and show the world you exist.’ These rousing words from Looi van Kessel marked the start of the third Pride Leiden for the university boat, with the theme: ‘450 years of being yourself’.
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Victor KlinkenbergFaculty of Archaeology
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Bruno VerbeekFaculty of Humanities
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas FossenFaculty of Humanities
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Monique ArntzFaculty of Archaeology
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Marlena Antczak-MackowiakFaculty of Archaeology
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Jean-Jacques HublinFaculty of Archaeology
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Jeremy Menzer
Faculty of Archaeology
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Jos BazelmansFaculty of Archaeology
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Ashleigh Morris
Faculty of Archaeology
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Zara Ali
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From soft drinks to beer cask: ‘De Fusie is a place for everyone’
The glasses have been rinsed, the furniture is in place and the six-member board is ready. A very short time to go before De Fusie opens its doors in the Gorlaeus Building. The brand new bar promises to be a nice addition to the social life on campus. ‘We don't just want to run a cosy bar, but also…
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Uzbek mathematician refines world-famous theory: ‘So many things are connected’
Predicting the collective behaviour of systems, like a large group of people electing one of the parties, is no easy task. But there’s a theory that scientists have been using for decades to do just that: the theory of Gibbs measures. Last week, mathematician Mirmukhsin Makhmudov earned his PhD for…
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Roeland EmausFaculty of Archaeology
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‘Studying in Leiden is a life-changing experience’: students on the LExS grant
Last year around 2,000 international students started a master’s degree at Leiden University. To make this possible, there are various grants that these students can apply for. One such grant is the LExS: the Leiden University Excellence Scholarship Programme. Three LExS students tell us about their…
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First Tuesday Talks is a fact: 'It's nice to learn something from another field'
He had been back from Australia for less than 48 hours, but there was no sign of that. Michel Mandjes of MI had the honor of kicking off the very first Tuesday Talks: Science Insights on Tuesday. He did so with a presentation on complex networks.
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Ester van der VoetFaculty of Science
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
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Janneke WesselingFaculty of Humanities
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Frank de Vos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences