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Two Van Bergen Prize winners: bringing Dutch and international students togetherNot one, but two initiatives have been awarded with the Van Bergen Prize at the Diversity Symposium on 22 January. ‘Leiden City Safari’ will give inco...
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‘There’s a difference between inclusion and change’If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University’s annual Diversity S...
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Digital Transformation: how do children perceive computer science?Contribute to shaping the content and methods of future computer science education. That is what researchers hope to achieve with the Digital Transfor...
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhoodNew housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in O...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime AchievementRecognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Joost Batenburg new professor for SAILSSAILS started the new year with a new professor. Joost Batenburg will join the SAILS team with his expertise in Imaging and Visualisation. This makes ...
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New water jet cutter for Fine Mechanical DepartmentThe Fine Mechanical Department's (FMD) new Wardjet A0612 will cut anything using a 4000 bar water jet. This enables the FMD to work faster, more accur...
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Recommendations from the Student Well-being TaskforceWe know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden Univers...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next levelEarly December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economyA new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be cruci...
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Working better with LEAN: Faculty of Science works on changeKeep improving: that’s the philosophy of LEAN, a method to tackle practical problems at the workplace yourself. After a successful start in 2017, in 2...
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New Year's resolutions for 2020? We'll help you out!More exercise, a healthier diet, more time to yourself: we make resolutions every year, but they often don't make it past the end of January. To help ...
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NWO grant for optimal design of complex and distributed cyber-physical systemsNWO awarded a grant for novel research on Complex and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The grant will fund a four-year research project in wh...
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A jubilee year: 2019 in five videosOur cameraman could regularly be found on location in 2019, reporting back on funny, remarkable and interesting University stories. This gave us films...