40 search results for “soil diaspora” in the Student website
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Isabel Siles AsaffScience
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Konstantinos GeorgopoulosScience
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Farzad AslaniScience
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Sophie PlanchenaultScience
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Carolina Pereira De Queiroz MonteiroFaculteit Archeologie
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Sofia Fernandes GomesScience
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Martijn BezemerScience
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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Emilia HannulaScience
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Jorinde NuytinckScience
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Eman ElbadryScience
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Weilin HuangScience
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Anniek KortleveScience
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Dirk-Jan KokScience
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Mohamed MuseFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Rijk van DijkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Riccardo MancinelliScience
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Chenguang GaoScience
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Pengxuan XieScience
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Peter van BodegomScience
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Francesco Ragazzi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Students help make Maldives more fertile
Its idyllic setting and white sandy beaches have made the Maldives a hotspot for tourists. This provides an income but is a problem for the fragile natural environment. Students from various universities worked with the local people to make the soil more fertile. How did they go about it?
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be
Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of those benefits. To rectify that, a Leiden PhD candidate and a student – armed with a cargo bike – are using The Hague as a life-size laboratory.
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Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University
Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.
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A lunar land grab?
Missions to the moon have become popular again. In just one week, a lunar mission from Russia failed while India landed a spacecraft in a historic first. Companies, too, want to go to the moon. But can anyone just go to the moon? Tanja Masson-Zwaan explains the rules of international space law on Dutch…
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Plastic in cigarette filters: why smoking is bad for the environment too
We all know smoking is bad for our health. But we might not have known that the cigarette filters that litter our streets also impact the environment. Esther Kentin is a lecturer at Leiden Law School. She is raising awareness of the University’s cigarette butt problem.
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Become a buddy at the EU TalentOn 14-18 September
Organisation, Research, Social
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Statement from the Executive board: taking care of one another
The world is currently beset by many problems. The armed conflict and continuing violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories is resulting in numerous casualties. This is giving rise to many emotions and reactions worldwide, and also greatly affecting our own university community. We have seen…
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‘Butts off our campus’ days: Make our campus butt-free!
Facility
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‘Poorer people often bear the brunt of sustainability initiatives’
The effects of sustainability projects on poorer, marginalised people should be considered at a much earlier stage. This is the opinion of Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainable Development and Livelihood, who will give her inaugural lecture on 25 February.
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. In that respect, a huge amount happened at Leiden University in 2023.
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EU TalentOn: challenging young, academic talent to shape the future!
Research
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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The lifecycle of a cigarette filter
The university is launching a campaign to focus extra attention on our smoke-free university locations. The University is using aptly named cigarette barrels to try to show clearly just how many cigarette filters are being saved from the environment. How harmful are these cigarette filters to the e…
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Leiden biologists find nanoplastics in developing heart
Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos sheds new light on how these tiny plastic particles pose a threat to our health.
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Nettle workshop: fiber, nutrition and stories
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium