554 search results for “science in the media” in the Student website
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Competition: will you come up with the name for the new bar in the Gorlaeus Building?
Organisation
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Deadline extended until 14 April: Stand as a candidate in the University elections
Organisation
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Lab coats off and rain boots on: students do research in the polder
The Vrouw Vennepolder near Oud Ade has been transformed into the Polderlab. Scientists and students from Leiden University, together with farmers and citizens, investigate how to manage peatland in a sustainable and profitable manner. A great opportunity for students to experience how scientific knowledge…
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A first in the lab: a tiny network that is both strong and flexible
Daniela Kraft's group has succeeded in creating a network of microparticles that is both strong and completely flexible. This may sound simple, yet they are the first in the world to succeed in doing so. A real breakthrough in soft matter physics.
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Network temporarily not available in the night of 6 February to 7 February
ICT
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Read about your rights and obligations in the student charter 2022-2023
Organisation
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time
A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to do so while helping schools face the challenges imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Higher education students are joining hands with primary…
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Status update in the evolutionary race between humans and resistant bacteria: two steps forward for us
A patent for what may be a potent, new antibiotic. And: a clear overview of promising approaches to overcome a crucial resistance tactic employed by bacteria. In the span of one week, two researchers from Leiden are receiving their PhDs, each of them on an important step in the battle against bacteria…
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners
X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as we would like. Mathé Zeegers is researching the newest technique in the field at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science: spectral X-ray imaging.…
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Nederlands Student Kampioenschap’ student games for the first time in The Hague
The 'Groot Nederlands Student Kampioenschap' student games have been held for the first time in two cities, Delft and The Hague. To make this happen our Campus The Hague worked together with The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Three students look back…
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Code orange; what to do in the case of a weather alert
Education, Organisation
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Doing the CPC Run in The Hague? Collect your free Leiden University running shirt
Social
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Academics in the public debate: come discuss academic freedom at our dialogue session
Research
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First patient in the Netherlands successfully treated with stem cell gene therapy
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital immune disorder SCID. An important milestone: it is the first time stem cell gene therapy of Dutch origin has been administered to a patient, and also…
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Saturday 19 March 2022: Work in progress in the Snellius building to expand capacity of ISSC data centre
Organisation
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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From healthy eating to the art of failing: join in the Student Wellbeing Weeks
It’s good to know you’re not alone in these strange times. That’s why Leiden University is organising the Student Wellbeing Weeks from 18 January to 14 February 2021. In these weeks we’ll help you with workshops, lectures and activities to keep you mentally and physically fit.
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New spinoff company to solve major roadblock in the quantum revolution
Physicist Kaveh Lahabi’s research on quantum materials led to the launch of a new company: QuantaMap. With his colleagues, he developed a sensor that will improve the production of quantum computer chips. ‘It turns out that what I need for my fundamental physics research is also very useful for the…
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2023 and win great prizes!
Education, Research, Social
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Take part in the Erasmus+ survey and you might win a Bol.com voucher worth €200!
Research
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Green roofs and tile flipping: research in The Hague on the best approach to climate and species diversity
Does a communal garden provide cool air and warm neighbourly relations? Does an additional row of trees increase biodiversity? These kinds of questions are key in the COMBINED project, on which Leiden scientists and residents of The Hague, among others, can work for six years with 4 million euros from…
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2024 and win great prizes!
Education, Research, Social
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Butts off our campus: throw your cigarette butt in the bin
Facility
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Liveable planet lecture & drinks - Mobilizing the Dutch climate research community to accelerate system transitions
Lecture
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Would you like to know more about the Faculty Council? Meet them in the atrium on 24 April and get free lunch
Organisation
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Would you like to know more about the Faculty Council? Meet them in the atrium on 13 April and get free lunch!
Organisation
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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to know more about the Faculty Council? Come and join us for a drink in the Foobar on 21 March
Organisation
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From discovery to business: 'In the lab, we often don't realise that we are working to help an immense number of patients'
'It gave our team a big boost to hear that our work was valuable,' says medical chemist Elmer Maurits about the moment they won the Venture Challenge. With their company Iprotics, they want to develop a drug that can better treat patients with autoimmune diseases and blood cancers. 25,000 euros of prize…
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Zooming in on Black Holes with a telescope the size of planet Earth
Lecture, Kaiser Spring Lecture
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‘Let’s try not to lose sight of each other’ – Interview with Annetje Ottow
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experiencing group pressure.
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associations competition? Come to the get-together on Thursday 21 March in the Foobar!
Education, Organisation
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
- Yoga in the Hortus Botanicus
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Visit Royal Norwegian Embassy in The Hague
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop: Painting and claying in the FooBar
Student well being
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Alumnus Sam van Raalte: From psychology to podcast
Alumnus Sam van Raalte followed his passion into freelance journalism.
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Working in the Netherlands for non-EU
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop How to find a job in the Netherlands
Study support, Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop How to find a job in the Netherlands
Career and apply for jobs
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference
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Visit to the Finnish Embassy in The Hague
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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Visit the Embassy of The Republic of Yemen in The Hague
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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How teaching inclusively changes the perspective and dynamics in the classroom
Lecture