24 search results for “light pollution” in the Student website
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Sebastiaan Grosscurt
Science
s.grosscurt@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Dani Crowley
Science
d.crowley@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4759
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Paul Vriend
Science
p.vriend@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden
‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he said: “Oh, you mean: lights out, stars on!” That’s not completely true, of course, because the stars are always on, but his phrase summed up the idea n…
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Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Science
a.theodoropoulos@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4882
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Thijs Bosker
Science
t.bosker@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4924
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Berent Baris
Science
b.t.baris@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Liselotte Rambonnet
Science
l.rambonnet@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 715272 5082
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what researchers, artists and the residents of Leiden are going to investigate during Seeing Stars Leiden on 25 September. ‘Leiden is the ideal place for…
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Wil Tamis
Science
tamis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anjali Pandit
Science
a.pandit@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4198
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Oana Georgiana Rus-Oswald
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
o.g.rus@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sylvestre Bonnet
Science
bonnet@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4260
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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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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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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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The BillieCup is expanding
Facility
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community
Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?
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Science for Sustainable Societies: a new bachelor’s programme
The new interdisciplinary bachelor's program in Science for Sustainable Societies starts in the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Leiden University takes another step in becoming smoke-free with 'Peukenzee' initiative
In recent months, the university has been running the 'Smoke-free university' campaign because of the large number of cigarette waste on and around the faculties. As part of this campaign, gatherings were held in June, September and October to draw extra attention to this waste problem.
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‘Butts off our campus’ days: Make our campus butt-free!
Facility
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Luchtkwaliteit in Beeld
Experiment
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).