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In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
Arts and culture
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Leiden Classics: The Leiden Observatory, the world’s oldest university observatory
Whether finding signals of dark matter or discovering hydrogen in the vicinity of exoplanets, Leiden astronomers are world players in their field, and they are part of a long tradition: Leiden was the first university in the world to have its own observatory.
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing? What kinds of things is he doing and what does his day look like? In each newsletter Jasper gives a peek into his life as dean.
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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Wisselwerking tussen commuun en bijzonder materieel strafrecht
PhD defence
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Household Robots : Training Datasets & the Politics of Categories
Lecture, Film Screening + Q&A
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Capital humano femenino en la minería chilena: asociaciones público- privadas, responsabilidad social empresarial y género
PhD defence
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Opinion Diversity through Hybrid Intelligence
PhD defence
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Unraveling the drivers of antimicrobial pharmacokinetic variability in individuals with obesity and hospitalized patients with multimorbidity
PhD defence
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Digging through data: the rise and fall of a Miocene mammal biodiversity hotspot in the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain)
PhD defence
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Ideología y clivajes partidarios en la conformación del socialismo como expresión política en Chile (1891-1938)
PhD defence
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Empirical Analysis of Social Insurance
PhD defence
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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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Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever'
Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.
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How to make an old antibiotic a hundred times more potent
Nathaniel Martin, Professor of Biological chemistry, wondered what would happen if you take an antibiotic that has been known for 70 years and try to improve it with the latest tools of modern chemistry. Turns out it can become up to a hundred times more potent and prevent the growth of some drug-resistant…
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Young Medical Delta Symposium: Accessibility to and through MedTech
Conference
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Hybrid Josephson junctions and their qubit applications
PhD defence
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Democratie, deugden docentschap
PhD defence
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Maneuvering through a World of Stressors
PhD defence
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Genomics applications of Nanopore long-read sequencing for small to large sized genomes
PhD defence
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Van liefdadigheid naar abortusstrijd. Leidse vrouwen en de Nederlandse vrouwenbeweging van 1860 tot 1990.
PhD defence
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Formación ciudadana en universidades chilenas
PhD defence
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Environmental assessment and guidance for the future development of offshore wind energy
PhD defence
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Plant-soil interactions determine ecosystem aboveground and belowground processes in primary dune ecosystems
PhD defence
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Re-entry support from prison-based and community-based professionals
PhD defence
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Design and synthesis of a next generation carbohydrate-mimetic cyclitols
PhD defence
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Exploring the metabolism and toxicity of amino sugars and 2- deoxyglucose in Streptomyces
PhD defence
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Dosing considerations for preterm neonates
PhD defence
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Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools
PhD defence
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The Sky is Made of Lava: How lava worlds reveal their interiors through their atmospheres
PhD defence
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New Polymyxin Antibiotics for Old Problems
PhD defence
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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From Risks to Public Opinion: How Structural Economic Changes Shape Political Attitudes and Policy Preferences
PhD defence
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Dutch Investment in French: Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century
PhD defence
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MAGL modulators - Structure-guided optimisation and characterisation
PhD defence
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Quantitative pharmacological modelling for optimizing treatment of sepsis
PhD defence
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Reliable and Fair Machine Learning for Risk Assessment
PhD defence
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Gemeenten in de wereld
PhD defence
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Systematics and Biogeography of the Calamus javensis Complex in Malesia (Arecaceae; Calamoideae)
PhD defence
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What Contribution can Scholarship make to the Development of International Criminal Law?
Conference, Discussion
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform: a collection of essays on human mobility and social protection
PhD defence
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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Women, Family, and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Chongqing
PhD defence
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'The proper time for marriage: Plato vs. Xenophon on law and persuasion'
Lecture