450 news items found
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Video series: Why Latin America matters 07 June 2022Latin America matters! With its rich history, culture, its impressive resilience and creative innovation in the face of such a diverse array of challe...
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The lifecycle of a cigarette filter 01 June 2022The university is launching a campaign to focus extra attention on our smoke-free university locations. The University is using aptly named cigarette...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice 31 May 2022What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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How do European Muslims see their future? 30 May 2022Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting E...
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‘How can you lead an organisation when you do not yet know yourself?’ 30 May 2022How to implement good leadership? This is the central question posed during the inspiration seminars of the LLP, in which renowned guest speakers shar...
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Plastic in cigarette filters: why smoking is bad for the environment too 30 May 2022We all know smoking is bad for our health. But we might not have known that the cigarette filters that litter our streets also impact the environment....
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep? 24 May 2022Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforc...
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Should intelligence services have a ‘licence to kill’? 19 May 2022The ‘University of the Netherlands’ is a series of lectures in which academics address topics based on their expertise. In the latest instalment, cult...
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence 19 May 2022It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for...
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Leiden University publishes the titles of seven tainted scientific articles 18 May 2022In a supplementary decision on 17 May 2022, the Executive Board of Leiden University has concluded that it will publish the titles of seven articles i...
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Students for Palestine panel discussion in The Hague on 24 May 17 May 2022Students for Palestine – a group of students from Leiden and The Hague – are holding a panel discussion in the Leiden University in The Hague Wijnhave...
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Results of University elections: swing in student representation 17 May 2022The results of the 2022 University elections are out. The student section of the University Council will be different from how it has been in the past...
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‘Using real-world data to enhance our healthcare system’ 17 May 2022On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver ...
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How do we stop homophobia at sports clubs? 17 May 2022Not all gay and lesbian students feel equally safe at their sports clubs. ‘Homo’ is used almost unthinkingly as a term of abuse and players often face...
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia 16 May 2022Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, c...