450 news items found
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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’ 18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Live blog: Alternative demonstrations in Leiden and The Hague against government cuts 14 November 2024Alternative demonstrations were held in Leiden and The Hague on Thursday 14 November after the national protest in Utrecht was cancelled. Leiden Unive...
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From atoms to the cosmos: ‘Everything in the universe is connected’ 14 November 2024Exploring the largest structures in the universe by looking at the tiniest particles? Lydia Stofanova, PhD candidate at Leiden Observatory and SRON Ne...
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Join the protest against the higher education cuts 13 November 2024Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a...
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1575th student receives Honours College certificate 11 November 2024On the eve of Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, the 1574th and 1575th Honours College students received their honours certificates. In a crowded ...
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Jasper's day 07 November 2024Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, J...
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Silver and light: a powerful combination with the potential to save lives 06 November 2024Packages of DNA strands containing silver, measuring just two or three nanometres in size. Leiden physicists Donny de Bruin and Dirk Bouwmeester creat...
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Combining high-level sports and work: ‘It makes me better at both’ 05 November 2024She works four days a week as a project manager at LIACS and trains six days a week with the Dutch Para Climbing team. Christiane Luttikhuizen balance...
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European grants for research on ultrathin membranes and the biological clock in bacteria 05 November 2024Two research groups involving Leiden University have been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on the development ...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague 04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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‘You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to make a difference’ 01 November 2024Sharing his passion for sustainability with students—that’s what Thijs Bosker enjoys most about his work. As an environmental scientist, he conducts e...
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Student and entrepreneur: ‘PLNT The Hague is the place to find like-minded people’ 28 October 2024Taking a Bachelor’s in Security Studies while starting and running two businesses: student Mohamed Sulaiman never stops. But he wouldn’t have it any o...
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation 28 October 2024This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so) 24 October 2024Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbrea...