Since 2015 the United Nations have declared 11 February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Leiden University organized a public event for over a hundred visitors. In between a lecture on alien life and a talkshow on…
Action Changes Things. Do you ACT? Come to the public event @ Leiden University! With: Ewine van Dishoeck, Margriet van der Heijden, Irene Groot, Wim van Saarloos, Daniela Kraft, Eline Slagboom, Minette van den Bemd, Miranda van Eck Link to…
The aim of the Westerdijk Talent Scheme programme is to increase the number of women professors and therefore the contribution to a greater diversity at the top of Dutch academia. The programme offers universities the possibility to apply for grants…
RISE congratulates Prof. dr. Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory with the 2018 James Craig Watson Medal from the American National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her achievements in the science of Astronomy. Read the original full news item of…
A well deserved appointment of RISE founder Martina Vijver as professor of Ecotoxicology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University with effect from 1 December 2017. Congratulations on behalf of all members of RISE! Read the original full…
In her online lecture at the University of the Netherlands, environmental scientist Dr. Martina Vijver tells what toothpaste, sweaty socks and water fleas have in common. Martina takes the public into the world of nanoparticles. She explains what those nanoparticles…
Since 2006, the World Economic Forum publishes yearly the Global Gender Gap Report to track the gender-based disparities in 144 countries world-wide with respect to the themes 1) Economic Participation and Opportunity, 2) Educational Attainment, 3) Health and Survival, 4)…