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Liveable Planet present at LUGO Sustainability Day 03 May 2023Liveable Planet, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme on sustainability, has a full presence at the LUGO Sustainability Day on Tuesday 9 Ma...
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Nicolien Mizee new writer in residence at Leiden University 01 May 2023Writer and columnist Nicolien Mizee will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence from autumn 2023.
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‘Not everyone has health goals top of mind’ 01 May 2023Doctors can fix a lot, but preventing or delaying disease is better. This often requires lifestyle changes, which turn out to be difficult. Sandra van...
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Osteoarchaeologist Maia Casna receives the NVFA Incentive Prize: ‘I try to push osteology into the public eye as much as I can’ 24 April 2023PhD candidate Maia Casna received an Incentive Prize from the Dutch Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA). She was rewarded this honor for her ...
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Shaping the university of the future. Leiden University joins Una Europa alliance 24 April 2023Leiden University is a member of the Una Europa European alliance. This partnership of 11 research-intensive universities is working to shape the univ...
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Results of the university elections 2023 21 April 2023The results of the 2023 university elections have been announced. Who will represent us on the university’s participation councils?
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Reflecting on Professor Carrie Vout's Masterclass on Classical Art 20 April 2023From March 27 to 31 Byvanck Professor Carrie Vout gave the intensive masterclass Classical Art - Definitions, Politics, Limits. This special lecture s...
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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’ 19 April 2023Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past 12 April 2023Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugu...
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University elections: get to know the student parties 11 April 2023The university elections are coming up. Sustainability, inclusion, student well-being… What do you think deserves more attention? From 17 to 20 April,...
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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The successful pilot with bring your own device exams at the Faculty of Archaeology 06 April 2023At Leiden University, more and more exams are being done digitally instead of on paper. Originally, Leiden University would provide the large quantiti...
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers signs international book contract with Penguin Press 06 April 2023Back in 2020, Dr Maikel Kuijpers started to write for The Correspondent. His articles offered readers a unique long-term insight into the materials th...