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Frank Noé, professor at Freie Universität Berlin and partner at Microsoft Research AI for Science, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Election to the APS fellowship is considered one of the highest…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an innovative line of research over the next five years and further expand their own research…

'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto-ethnographic project about family estrangement and repair. Ieke van Dam won the…

Amidst the growing availability of advanced life-lengthening medical interventions, both healthcare professionals and patients are recognizing that less medical intervention can sometimes lead to a better experience of the last phase of…

Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: Het volkomen geleerdenleven van Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje'. Snouck Hurgronje…

The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to integrate sustainability in its research and teaching. It is also taking steps to look…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the world. From finance and geopolitics to education and social interactions, everything is being affected by AI developments. This state of constant change is challenging existing governance…

To better prevent suicides, researchers are attempting to build reliable models to predict when someone might consider suicide. However, this proves incredibly challenging, explain Antypa and Kivelä from the Department of Clinical…

Aalto University improved its ranking from last year and rose to 196th place in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings. Aalto was particularly successful in cooperation with companies, which is assessed by the…

The application call for the Unite! Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning was open from June 15 to August 31, 2024. Its purpose was to support the development of joint or collaborative teaching formats within the focus areas of the Unite!…