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March 19, 2018
First joint UCL/KU Leuven mission
On 9 and 10 March 2018, UCL and KU Leuven will organise a joint mission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. It’s the first joint international mission for the two Belgian universities since the split. The schedule includes the signing by KU Leuven and MIT of a...
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February 14, 2018
Bactaria = problem but also the solution
Johann Mignolet, post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of the professor Pascal Hols, did a major breakthrough on bacterial behavior during his researches at UCLouvain (Life Sciences Institute). He discovered that a bacterial inhabitant of the human gut produces a small molecule, called...
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December 11, 2017
2018 UCL honorary doctorate recipients
On 5-6 February 2018, UCL will award honorary doctorates to three individuals: edX CEO Anant Agarwal, Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker, and Sorbonne Professor and Humanum Chair Moulad Doueihi. What do they have in common? A powerful vision of how digital technology, particularly open...
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December 07, 2017
When the university says goodbye to its international...
One hundred and fifty international students, representing 23 nationalities, were received at the Halles universitaires on Tuesday 5 December. They had been invited by the Pro-Rector for International Affairs Professor Dana Samson and Pro-Rector for Alumni Professor Marc Francaux.
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December 07, 2017
Syria : rise of air bombardments fatal for children
UCL Research - press release
In 2016, one in four civilians killed in the Syrian conflict was a child. A team of researchers at the UCL Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters analyzed data about more than 140,000 violent deaths between 2011 and 2016 in areas not controlled...
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