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An artistic view on the hidden fungi in the soil
Music from a compostable cello, photographs and scents of fungi and a woven tapestry. With her upcoming multimedia project Super Organism, visual artist Suzette Bousema enables people to experience the underground fungal network with all their senses. Environmental scientist Nadia Soudzilovskaia and…
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NWO PhDs in the Humanities: PhD position for Bobby Ruijgrok
LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitled 'Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping'. LUCL congratulates Bobby on this beautiful result.
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Using biologically inspired algorithms in the physical world
Using biologically inspired algorithms on 'edge devices', such as cameras and mobile phones, is what Svetlana Minakova's PhD research was all about. She conducted research on Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN). Making these algorithms work in different situations is a complicated task. 'Most design…
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Partnership of ISGA in the LIFE SECURDOMINO project
With a Kick Off Meeting on 10 December 2021, we are proud to present the partnership of Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) in the LIFE SECURDOMINO project!
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Funding for research on distribution of wealth in the Netherlands
Heike Vethaak and Egbert Jongen from the Department of Economics of Leiden Law School have been commissioned by the Dutch Trade Union Confederation (FNV) to conduct research on the development and distribution of wealth in the Netherlands. The research will start in July and the outcome is expected…
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Classroom scanners in the Lipsius building tested by ethical hackers
To check whether the classroom scanners are secure, a ‘pen test’ was performed in the Lipsius building on Monday 28 March. This involved switching on the person counters for a day so that ethical hackers could try to gain access to the system.
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Call for Papers - Heraldic Imagination in the Netherlands
This Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) aims to explore how early modern individuals and groups branded themselves through their heraldic presentation on contemporary social media and materials. Although this call for papers focuses on the period 1500-1800,…
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Follow in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers
As part of the conference's social programme, participants of ICEHL-21 have the opportunity to go on a walking tour related to the Pilgrim Fathers.
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LUC students participated in the annual UCSRN tournament
Last week almost 80 LUC students together with the student association Fortuna took part in the annual UCSRN tournament.
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Puzzlegami: Martin van Hecke Lab in the media
The Van Hecke group published in Nature Physics about programmable origami, which was covered in the following media.
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Andrew Gawthorpe in the Financial Times about the Republican primaries
University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe is quoted in a Financial Times article on the Republican primaries.
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NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities Grant for 'Text in Context'
Cisca Hoogendijk received an NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities Grant for the project 'Text in Context: Recontextualising the papyri from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos / Dime (Fayyum, Egypt)'.
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Leiden physicists in the media on Nobel Prize
The 2018 Physics Nobel Prize is awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou for their research on optical tweezers based on lasers. Leiden physicists comment in the following media.
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From Wife to Presidential Partner: the Policy Agenda of the First Lady of the United States
In this article, Kuipers and Timmermans analyze the first lady's relationship with policy problems in the period 1945-2013.
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Ricci, Weakening the EU from within: A conversation with Hans Vollaard
Interview with political scientist Hans Vollaard (Leiden University) about “Nexit” speculations, the strengths and weaknesses of Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom, and the general attitude towards Europe in the Netherlands.
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Anke KleinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Federico De MussoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mitch van GeelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bart van der SteenLeiden University Libraries
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Peter van der PuttenFaculty of Science
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Eduard Fosch VillarongaFaculty of Law
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Liesbeth van VlietFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Amy EaglestoneFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Max van DuijnFaculty of Science
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Lara WierengaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Bleda DüringFaculty of Archaeology
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Nadira SaabICLON
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Constant HijzenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Maryla KlajnFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Annelieke HagenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
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Mariana FrançozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Educational adventures in the tropics: discovering rainforests in Borneo
Photographing fluorescent flowers, searching for frogs and shooting tropical cucumbers out of trees: this is only a small part of the course Tropical Biodiversity and Field Methods. For this class, master’s students biology traveled to Malaysian Borneo for two weeks to gain experience in fieldwork.…
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A walk in The Hague with Eva Oskam
Eva is in her third year at Leiden University College The Hague, but she is also very active outside her studies. Besides Youth Ambassador of The Hague she worked for Plan Nederland and UNICEF, where she cooperated in exciting projects on a national as well as on an international level. In order to…
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.
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Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics
With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden PhD candidate Alexander Kloosterman searched genomes of bacteria and found clusters of DNA that code for proteins that have an antibiotic effect. ‘This new…
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MIRD Students visit international organisations in The Hague
Students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy visited the OPCW and ICJ in The Hague, gaining insights into key international organisations.
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Topological Metamaterials in the media
Press coverage for the Nature Physics-paper about topological materials by Anne Meeussen, Erdal Oğuz, Yair Shokef and Martin van Hecke
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College or university? Computer science students in the right place
The right student in the right place. That is what LIACS programme director Frank Takes and education coordinator Joyce Glerum are aiming to do with the ‘Wisselstroom’ project. By next year, they hope to have a standardised protocol that will make it easier for computer science students to transfer…