450 news items found
-
Study associations sign covenant: limit your alcohol consumption and look after each other 09 November 2023Opting more often for mocktails or soft drinks rather than beer or wine, talking to others about their drinking and pointing out the ban on drugs. Lei...
-
Vocational education and university join forces for quantum technology 09 November 2023Quantum technology is the future, but not without skilled people. For this reason, the Talent & Learning Centre (TLC) Delft/Leiden has been establishe...
-
Jasper’s day 09 November 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...
-
‘Science is international so our faculty should be too’ 09 November 2023‘Our faculty is a very international community. And that is something everybody really benefit from,’ says Yun Tian. As the officer internationalisati...
-
New Science bar name revealed 09 November 2023In the Gorlaeus Building, there will be a brand new faculty bar for students and staff. From hundreds of entries, a faculty jury chose the name for th...
-
iGEM team wins multiple awards at Grand Jamboree 09 November 2023Leiden's iGEM team has won high honours at the Grand Jamboree in Paris. The biology students came second in the Overgraduate category with their proje...
-
Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students 09 November 2023Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects. ...
-
ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos 07 November 2023The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such...
-
A lifeline for Leiden research – TB solution a step closer thanks to this Indonesian university 07 November 2023Herman Spaink knows of many substances that may help combat tuberculosis. Lab space to study them safely is very limited in Leiden. A brand-new lab at...
-
New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa 06 November 2023Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African cont...
-
Leiden University and Municipality of The Hague to collaborate on sustainability 06 November 2023Leiden University and the Municipality of The Hague signed a collaboration agreement on sustainability on 1 November. Their main goals are to build a ...
-
Executive Board column: Running to clear your mind 06 November 2023A lot is going on in the world right now, and our university regularly faces big issues and dilemmas too. Then it can be tricky to switch off. For me,...
-
Students build software for real customers 06 November 2023Students gain practical experience while clients receive a solution to their software needs: the student software company LUDev hits two birds with on...
-
New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve 02 November 2023When he started high school, his brother gave him an advanced book on quantum computing. That's when he knew what he wanted to pursue. Since 1 October...
-
Algorithms descend into our sewers to improve inspections 01 November 2023They never cross our minds until, that is, they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and...