450 news items found
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan 18 December 2023Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known...
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Three awarded research projects in NWO-XS call 18 December 2023Cryogenic memories, antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections and recycling plastic sustainably. These are the subjects of the three NWO-XS gr...
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Ineke Sluiter and Arnold Tukker first distinguished professors at Leiden University 18 December 2023The Executive Board has appointed Ineke Sluiter and Arnold Tukker as distinguished professors at Leiden University. They will be the first to give sha...
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 2023 18 December 2023The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our...
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Leiden University 14th in global sustainability ranking 18 December 2023Leiden University has taken 14th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Over 1,000 universities from all arou...
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Antibiotic resistance: an economic problem universities could help to solve 18 December 2023Antibiotic resistance is an economic problem. Pharmaceutical companies cannot earn much from antibiotic research, so they do not invest in it. This ma...
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First Tuesday Talks is a fact: 'It's nice to learn something from another field' 14 December 2023He 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 firs...
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Jasper's day 14 December 2023Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing? What kinds of things is he doing and what does his day look like? In each news...
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Artwork in the new Gorlaeus Building: ‘Academics and artists have more in common than we think’ 14 December 2023Leiden artist Jos Agasi gets to create the artwork for the atrium of the new Gorlaeus Building. His work was chosen from several entries and will be a...
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UN Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’ 14 December 2023Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects 12 December 2023Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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Bachelor's research on ultra-thin nanochip nominated for Young Talent Award 12 December 2023Using 2D materials, physics student Romme van der Kemp developed a nanochip that is extremely small ánd scalable. This is needed to make all kinds of ...
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Verifying the correctness of mathematical theorems with a computer 12 December 2023How correct are mathematical theorems? And is all the theory around them correct? To find out, mathematics student Dominique Lawson converted a mathem...
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Targeting the immune system to inhibit atherosclerosis 12 December 2023A new treatment for atherosclerosis showed promising results in isolated cells but proved to be less effective in initial animal tests. Bachelor stude...
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How ‘sleeping’ microorganisms can determine the fate of a population 12 December 2023Microorganisms that temporarily ‘go to sleep’ play an important role in the evolution and survival of a population. Mathematician Shubhamoy Nandan con...