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Should you leave academia to handle democracy? 06 July 2022The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Va...
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ESOF session on vaccines: ‘Infectious diseases know no borders’ 04 July 2022How can Europe lead the way in vaccine development that is fast and for all? To answer this pressing question, Professor of Vaccinology Meta Roestenbe...
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Diversity in society: ‘We are looking for a new approach to an existing phenomenon’ 04 July 2022What is the best way for us as a society to deal with all the different forms of diversity? Professor Marlou Schrover will use the EuroScience Open Fo...
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ 30 June 2022Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leid...
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition 30 June 2022After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was bu...
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme 28 June 2022The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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Honours students on fieldwork: ‘The police don’t need to be doing dances on TikTok’ 27 June 2022Interviewing pupils and brainstorming with judges and lawyers. Students from the Trust in the Rule of Law honours course discovered how pupils at the ...
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Renewed Leiden Leadership Programme ‘provides tools to make a difference’ 27 June 2022The Leiden Leadership Programme is going to innovate. After 12 years, the honours track for master’s students will get a new set-up. We asked two of t...
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Out now! LEAP # 2: (Mis)Reading Nature 23 June 2022LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course....
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First patient in the Netherlands successfully treated with stem cell gene therapy 22 June 2022Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital ...
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‘Build resilience in traumatised children and young people’ 21 June 2022Many children experience trauma and if they are unable to deal with it properly, it can have a huge personal and societal effect. Building resilience ...
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Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen 17 June 2022With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
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National Student Survey shows Leiden students satisfied 16 June 2022The first results of the National Student Survey (NSE) show that Leiden students are still satisfied with their degree programmes. On average they are...
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen: 'At 24, I can already make a huge impact' 16 June 2022No full-time job, but full-time voluntary work instead. That’s what Aniek Moonen decided on graduating from Leiden University College The Hague, when ...
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Honours students mount an exhibition on ‘the other’ 14 June 2022Master’s students in the Honours Class ‘Leiden, City of Refugees?’ were asked to contemplate the concept of ‘the other’ from both an academic and an a...