450 news items found
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Construction of alternative Humanities Campus is feasible 10 May 2022
Leiden University can build an alternative Humanities Campus on its own available land at the current location in the city. This is the conclusion of ...
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’ 02 May 2022
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what...
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University elections: student parties introduce themselves 28 April 2022
Better links with the job market, diversity, quality of education, student well-being and free coffee. All these are issues that the student parties t...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022
From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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Leiden University turns the heating down by two degrees 22 April 2022
The thermostat in Leiden University’s buildings will be turned down by two degrees. The temperature will also be adjusted in rooms that are cooled. Th...
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’ 21 April 2022
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal ...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers 21 April 2022
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’ 21 April 2022
The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Health Day wins LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize 19 April 2022
Health Day has won the LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize (LUF RAP). This 5,000-euro prize is awarded to an initiative by Leiden University s...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? 19 April 2022
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language ...
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention 14 April 2022
Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are ...
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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’ 14 April 2022
On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the...
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Leiden University signs Declaration on Student Well-Being 06 April 2022
Leiden University and four other parties have signed a declaration in which they agree to improve the well-being of students in Leiden. They signed th...