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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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How fungi are helping us be more sustainable 05 February 2024Fungi don’t just grow as mould on your bread but can also be used to produce building materials, mushroom leather and meat substitutes. Professor of F...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Master’s student fundraising for research into lost human sense 02 February 2024Can humans sense where north is, using what is known as magnetoreception? This question had master’s student Björn Keyser (Media Technology) so intrig...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain 30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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'Only when you give students freedom, exceptional results are possible' 30 January 2024It doesn't happen every day that the research project of a first-year bachelor’s student results in a scientific publication. And not only that, but a...
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities 29 January 2024The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversi...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge 29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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Technology alone won't save us from the climate crisis 26 January 2024If European countries rely solely on technological advances, they won't be able to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees. Households will also need to c...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections 26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app 26 January 2024If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...
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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined' 25 January 2024The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific ...
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New entrance, new allure: Gorlaus Building officially completed 25 January 2024The Faculty of Science has gained an extra 30,000 square metres: Thursday 25 January marked the completion of the new Gorlaeus Building. In this secon...