98 search results for “meaning plant” in the Staff website
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Ellen CieraadScience
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Laura Julia ZantisScience
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Tressia ChikodzaScience
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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Kevin BretscherScience
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Marieke ElfferichScience
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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Peng SunScience
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Peiyan QinScience
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Martijn BezemerScience
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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
Facility
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Jeanine de Roy van ZuijdewijnFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Emily StrangeScience
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Jiaxin ZhangScience
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What does the outline agreement mean for us?
The outline agreement proposed by the new cabinet will have serious consequences for higher education and research. If the plans go through, there will be significant cutbacks in our sector. We will keep you up to date with developments on this page.
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Living Labs and ‘pavement plants’: Leiden University’s contributions to biodiversity
Through various initiatives, Leiden University is trying to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity: the cultivation of a wide variety of micro-organisms, animals and plant species. This is important because in the Netherlands biodiversity has declined from about 40 percent in 1900 to about…
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National Meat Free Week: the main reasons to switch to a plant-based diet
National Meat Free Week (Nationale Week Zonder Vlees, 7–13 March) is an initiative to reduce meat consumption. Assistant professor Paul Behrens is studying what impact a change in our food consumption would have on the world. What, according to him, are the main reasons to switch to a (mainly) plant-based…
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Frederic LensScience
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Tinde van AndelScience
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Farzad AslaniScience
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Weilin HuangScience
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Xinya PanScience
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Han van Konijnenburg
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Isabel Siles AsaffScience
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Pascal NuijtenScience
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What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz
Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.
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Nienke BeetsScience
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Sandra IrmischScience
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Paul KesslerScience
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Sylvia de PaterScience
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Roderick BoumanScience
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Chenguang GaoScience
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Peter van BodegomScience
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Open science means better science
Leiden University has an active open science community. Open science means transparency in all phases of research by precisely documenting every step of the way and making this publicly available. ‘It’s time to be open,’ say psychologists Anna van ’t Veer and Zsuzsika Sjoerds. There is increasing awareness…
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’
Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…
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Geeske LangejansFaculteit Archeologie
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Salma BalazadehScience
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You receive an email 'in quarantine': what does that mean?
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Landscaping
The Landscaping department manages, cares for and maintains all green spaces, road surfaces, waterways and ponds located on University grounds. The Landscaping department also performs work on request.
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Chao DuScience
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Pingtao DingScience
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Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more
When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that Dutch people are labelling events in increasingly broad contexts as violent.
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Leiden University is upgrading to Windows 11: what will this mean for you?
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P.J. VethNonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden
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Green islands around the University buildings to entice threatened insects
The number of insect species is plummeting, which is why the University is creating a more biodiverse environment around its buildings. Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, planted the first bee-friendly plants in the front garden of Oude UB on 20 September.
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Solar panels and sedum on the roof of Snellius: A first for Leiden University
One of the largest roofs at Leiden University, that of the Snellius building, has recently been equipped with 590 solar panels and 57,000 sedum plants, making it the largest combined roof in the Benelux. The roof was officially opened on Monday 10 October by Annetje Ottow and Martijn Ridderbos, President…
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Wat is er te doen op de Leidse Museumnacht?
Op zaterdag 3 juni vindt de Museumnacht Leiden plaats. Ook dit jaar zijn Leidse wetenschappers en studenten onderdeel van de programmering.