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Veronica Tamorri comes to Leiden with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship 02 March 2023Since November 2022, Veronica Tamorri has been a new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Originally from Rome, she joined the Faculty with a two-year ...
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This is roughly what the new University Sports and Exam Centre will look like (and where it will be) 28 February 2023The new University Sports and Exam Centre is another step closer. Bigger sports and exam halls, plenty of room for meeting people, an open feel that i...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ 27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Put away those textbooks and relax: the Living Room is open 23 February 2023Leiden University opened the doors of its new Living Room on Thursday 16 February. The Living Room is a home from home where Dutch and international s...
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture 23 February 2023Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March. This year’s lecture will be g...
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Faculty of Archaeology features in Archeologie Magazine Special 23 February 2023The Faculty of Archaeology is proud to present the special edition in honor of our 25th anniversary. In 15 pages, the Dutch-language special gives an ...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers 23 February 2023Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students. ‘Democracy will always be stronger than tyranny’ 22 February 2023A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students in the Cleveringa ...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Diversifying archaeological practice with a small grant: ‘This helps us to work in collaboration with the Faculty community’ 20 February 2023The Faculty of Archaeology is running a funding scheme to assist small-scale projects that contribute to diversifying archaeological practice in all d...
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Archaeologist Everest Gromoll wins LUF Thesis Prize with groundbreaking research on human responses to climatic shifts 20 February 2023On Saturday, February 11, 2023, at the Dies for Alumni event, archaeology alumni Everest Gromoll was awarded the LUF Thesis Prize. His thesis, titled ...
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The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic visits the Faculty of Archaeology 16 February 2023Monday 6 February the Faculty of Archaeology had the honour to receive the e Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Dr. Juan Bautista Durán. The m...
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Electric boats will make University construction projects cleaner 15 February 2023No more smelly lorries disposing of building waste or delivering building materials to the centre of Leiden. That’s Leiden University’s ambition for i...
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Proposed decision by Minister Kuipers: Children’s heart surgery to end in Leiden 14 February 2023Ernst Kuipers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, announced on 13 February that he plans to remove children’s heart surgery from the Centre for Co...
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Executive Board decision after University Council advice: People counters will not be switched on again 14 February 2023The more than 370 sensors that have been hung up in Leiden University buildings to count the people present will not be switched on again. The equipme...