450 news items found
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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...
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Leiden University Academy: Deepen, enrich and grow 18 January 2024Leiden University Academy is making lifelong learning even better! The entire range of programmes on offer for professionals has been expanded and uni...
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Students with a connection to Israel or Palestine together in a support group 18 January 2024Psychology lecturer Sepideh Saadat is leading a support group for students affected by the Israel-Hamas war. In four sessions she brings together stud...
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Compelling unemployed people to widen their job search is often counterproductive 17 January 2024Unemployed people often need not only a financial safety net but also a stimulus to look for work. PhD candidate Heike Vethaak researched the effects ...