450 news items found
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Carrot or stick: which is better motivation to exercise more? 22 February 2024Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behaviour. But does the threat...
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’ 19 February 2024There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. Some in the Netherlands are calling for a war econ...
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Why do vulnerable groups miss out on benefits? Research nominated for thesis prize 19 February 2024Why do vulnerable groups fail to make use of benefits that they are entitled to? This is what Max ten Velde researched in his Master’s in Management o...
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress 15 February 2024The varied mix of dress styles and many shades of black will no longer be seen at PhD ceremonies: permission was recently given for all members of the...
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Alumnus Charlotte Poot developed a hospital app for children 14 February 2024Charlotte Poot (31) is co-founder and chair of Hospital Hero, an app that prepares children for a hospital visit. She studied and obtained her PhD at ...
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Leiden University to limit fossil fuel ties 13 February 2024Leiden University no longer wishes to collaborate with fossil fuel partners that are not demonstrably committed to achieving the Paris Agreement targe...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis 08 February 2024How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain 30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities 29 January 2024The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversi...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge 29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...