2,480 search results for “education” in the Staff website
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AI and the green transition: a ‘match made in heaven’?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a technological saviour for addressing climate change. But there are risks associated with its use, observes Barrie Sander.
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Opening Gorlaeus Building celebrated grandly
Confetti, stilt walkers and the new Einstein Fountain. On Monday, 2 September, the Gorlaeus Building of the Faculty of Science was festively opened. Together with Constantijn van Oranje, our students cut the ribbon. Dean Jasper Knoester: ‘The building is ready, now it is up to our students and researchers…
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Hundreds of visitors learn about Leiden University science during 3 October University
Glorious sunshine, dozens of enthusiastic academics and huge numbers of Leiden residents ensured that this year’s special jubilee version of 3 October University was a great success.
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: September 2024
Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year! I hope this finds you feeling refreshed following an enjoyable and restful summer holiday season. As we start the autumn semester, I want to look back briefly by highlighting 10 significant milestones at LUCSoR from this past year (some of which I referenced in…
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‘Exposure therapy’ for bachelor students: preparing for the reality of scientific research
Already during their bachelor’s programme, students in Pharmaceutical Sciences are presented with challenging projects. One of these is the Bachelor Research Assignment (BOO in Dutch), which is often their first real experience with scientific research. This means a lot of responsibility and failures,…
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Progress in equality and law for women: the glass is half full
Following 40 years of research into the legal equality principle, Emeritus Professor Titia Loenen gave her valedictory lecture in which she took stock of the progress that has been achieved. She focused on equal rights for women and is cautiously optimistic, despite the current rise in conservatism…
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How much time will it take to log my travel? This and other questions about the new mobility policy
From 1 November we will have a new mobility policy and will track our commuting with an app. The new regulation is more sustainable and will also save us time and effort, say the union reps from the Local Consultative Body.
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre
Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Texas university and is trying to help make students more aware of the elections.
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Opening POP-up Living Room FSW
Opening
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Workshop Remindo: working with a Question Bank
Didactics
- Summer Celebration Honours Academy 2023
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Dialogue and Student Wellbeing
Lunchbyte
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OpenSesame Workshop FSW
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Recognition & Rewards Festival
Conference
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Connecting with societal partner: an event for researchers in the field of brain, cognition and behavior.
Conference
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Open Science Lunch - Faculty of Humanities
Debate, Lunch
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Workshop Mastering the art of test question design
Didactics
- Una Europa FSW roadshow
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Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
Lecture, China Seminar
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Webinar: Help your students get more out of your course.
Webinar for staff members
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Information session: Birmingham-Leiden Strategic Collaboration Fund
Webinar
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How to improve interdisciplinary cooperation within Leiden University?
Conference
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Our Digital Future 2023
Conference
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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Psychology Connected: Artificial Intelligence
Conference
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Online Kress Talks with Felicity Good and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
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Symposium on interdisciplinary collaboration: How do we foster connections?
Conference
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Course for (new) members of Leiden University boards of examiners
Didactics
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. Jasper first wrote his column from Kuala Lumpur, and it was ready to share. Then a crisis arose this week that demanded…
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Ukraine Symposium - Turning Point
Conference
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Boeklancering 'Atlas van ons Brein' van Lara Wierenga
Boekpresentatie
- Midterm review legal programmes
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Cultural Heritage, Well-being and the Future
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Willem Boterman
Lecture
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PhD Library Skill Session of 2021-2022
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | COVID-19 as an engine of family reshuffling
Lecture, Lecture part of series
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Reporting guidelines and their impact on papers, practices, and patterns in biomedical research
CWTS Seminar
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Metabolic trajectories before the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Lecture
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Innovating for change
Community event | workshops
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Learning by doing – a practical approach to integrate ethical and societal tools in quantum-innovation
Lecture