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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programmeLast Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s...
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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metalsThe current production of a number of critical metals is insufficient for the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. This is the conclusion of a...
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‘Nothing is so special about human intelligence, that it cannot be replicated in a machine’Is the possibility of computers making decisions for us in the future realistic? Holger Hoos, professor of Machine Learning, gives his opinion about t...
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CRITTERS Exposition: a photo impressionFrom November 4 to 10, the exposition CRITTERS will be exhibited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center during Beyond Human Festival. In CRITTERS artists an...
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate changeA special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...
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A Change of Course: When Will We Realise We Are All In The Same BoatPart Three: A Change of Course
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packingIn 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, Brit...
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Your opinion of the library counts!What do you think of our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to know!
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Piloting FAIR metadata with iRODS and YODA at Leiden UniversityThe FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles are a framework for researchers to make their scholarly output ready for use an...
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‘Spying’ on talented lecturersGood teaching isn’t as easy as it might seem. In November, the Month of Open Teaching, staff at Leiden University therefore have the opportunity to ‘s...
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Translation Beauty and Joy of Computing may convince girls to choose computer scienceProgramming courses are often only available in English. All the more reason for the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL) of the Leiden Institute...
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Technology as a creature during CRITTERS ExpositionWhen does technology become a creature? In the CRITTERS exhibition of the Media Technology master's programme of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Comp...
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Students help staff adopt healthier habits at Healthy University WeekStudents on the Health and Medical Psychology master’s programme have developed workshops on topics including reducing stress and being more active at...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film FestivalA film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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In pictures: kick-off Healthy University WeekOn Monday 28 October, we celebrated the start of Healthy University Week 2019. During this week, students and staff of Leiden University can follow wo...