450 news items found
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Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene 09 June 2023The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields o...
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Honours Conference brings ‘equally ambitious students’ together 06 June 2023At the Honours Conference, honours students shared interesting projects and valuable lessons learned during their honours education. As icing on the c...
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DEN Award for Streaming the Past project: 'A truly innovative way to engage with new audiences' 06 June 2023Back in 2021, the project Streaming the Past, an NWA funded project ran by Leiden University and the VALUE Foundation, launched to take a young audien...
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Take a sneak peek at the new Gorlaeus building 05 June 2023Want to see how the most important building on our Science Campus at Leiden Bio Science Park is taking shape? Come and find out on Construction Day (D...
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Ready for a future as climate changemaker, thanks to Designing Your Life 31 May 2023Getting motivation, courage and tools to find a job that will help you tackle the climate crisis: it is at the heart of the course ‘Designing Your Car...
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Doggerland shortlisted for the annual EAA Book Prize 31 May 2023The popular-science book 'Doggerland. Lost World under the North Sea' has been nominated for the EAA Book Prize 2023, awarded annually by the European...
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New publication investigates curious shift of 7th century burial practices 31 May 2023At the end of the 7th century something curious occurs in Northwestern Europe. Suddenly, people start burying the dead next to their dwellings instead...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men 26 May 2023The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected...
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room 26 May 2023A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Leiden osteoarchaeologists hold an online class for Italian schoolchildren 25 May 2023Postdoctoral researcher Veronica Tamorri and a PhD candidate Maia Casna held an online osteoarchaeological class for secondary school children. Howeve...
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Throwback: a festive end of the Faculty of Archaeology’s celebratory year 25 May 2023On Tuesday, the 16th of May, the Faculty of Archaeology put a festive end to the 25th year celebrations. The programme included a dedication of our la...
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Nearly all buildings at LBSP open and operating again from Wednesday 24 May 24 May 2023Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard ...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...