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Writer and performer Maud Vanhauwaert is KU Leuven's new writer-in-residence for the academic year 2023-2024. She follows in the footsteps of Bart Moeyaert, Annelies Verbeke and Saskia De Coster. As the university's in-house writer,…

Today's atomic clocks already keep time very precisely, but a nuclear clock could do even better. Such a clock is based on a special, unique form of the element thorium. In an experiment at the European particle lab CERN in Geneva,…

Laureates Sarah-Maria Fendt (KU Leuven/VIB) and Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) have been praised by the international jury for their research into the metastasis of cancer cells and the real-time genetic mapping of viruses. It is the second…

At the moment, barely 1% of the necessary vaccines for Africa are produced locally. The ambition is to increase this to 60% by 2040. KU Leuven is working with the Pasteur Institute in Dakar to remove some important obstacles such as the…

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is the collective name for algorithms that can create new content (text, code, images,…). The best known is probably ChatGPT. Technology offers enormous opportunities, but also challenges us and…

Due to climate change, good water management is more important than ever. Especially in flood-prone areas such as the Arenberg III campus in Heverlee. That is why KU Leuven has installed an innovative, smart pump installation that…

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a disease that affects more and more patients. Fats accumulate in the liver, often due to an unhealthy lifestyle. Usually there are few complaints, but in the long term the fatty degeneration…

Research from KU Leuven and Van Andel Research Institute shows that after inflammation of the urinary bladder there is an increased risk of developing multiple system atrophy (MSA). MSA is a rare, aggressive neurological disorder. As a…

In the coming months, KU Leuven will be exhibiting the work of art Ange de lumière in its University Hall . The work of the Congolese artist Yves Sambu can be viewed in the Jubilee Room, shedding new light on the African heritage objects…

In an interfaculty educational project, students of law, criminology and forensic sciences jointly investigate files of possibly wrongfully convicted persons. Did the investigation proceed correctly? Can new research methods or research…