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Leiden starts exchange with PolandLeiden University has started a collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The project includes the exchange of students and sta...
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Cucurachi, Behrens and Matthee are teacher, discoverer, and PhD candidate of 2018Environmental scientists Stefano Cucurachi and Paul Behrens and astronomer Jorryt Matthee have received prizes during the New Year's reception of the ...
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‘The higher education of the future will be more flexible’The future of education lies in its ability to become more flexible: students will put together their own study programme from different educational i...
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New Year's resolutions? We'll help you out!Work out more, eat healthier, have more time to yourself: we make resolutions every year, but they often don't make it past the end of January. To hel...
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Our year in 9 Facebook postsFishing a bike out of the frozen canal, stunningsunsets over Leiden and four plants that flowered for the first time in sixty years in the Hortus Bota...
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Films from 2018 you mustn't miss!2018 was filled with interesting developments at Leiden University. We try to record as many of them as possible, including in short videos. Here are...
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University Council and Executive Board agree quality agreementsFollowing a period of intensive discussion, the University Council (UR) approved the University Quality Standards Plan on 10 December. The UR endorse...
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CanalCups: getting to plastic-free canalsTwo weeks after 3 October the Leiden canals were still full of plastic disposable cups. Auke-Florian Hiemstra and fellow students have fished thousand...
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Computer scientists from Leiden and Eindhoven optimise building designsThe design process of new buildings is extremely complex due to strict requirements. Computer models are used to create the designs. Scientists from L...
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Percentage of women professors: Leiden in third placeLeiden University is in third place in the Netherlands for the percentage of women professors, behind the Open University and Radboud University in Ni...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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30 years and Professor: the story of Changsheng WuThe death of his grandfather in 1988 motivates Changsheng Wu to become a scientist. In 2016, he is awarded the C.J. Kok Jury Award for his thesis on n...
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Strong impetus for South Holland space researchThe SRON space research institute, Leiden University and the TU Delft are appointing six researchers to jointly carry out space research. The researc...
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New record number of PhDs: 447Once again, a record number of PhD candidates have been awarded a doctorate at Leiden University: 447, compared with 423 last year. This was announce...
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E-zine on the national research programme 'the Digital Society'The fourteen Dutch universities have published a digital magazine in which the researchers explain the Digital Society programme in text and images.