450 news items found
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list 23 March 2023While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens 21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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Successful On-Campus Master’s Experience Day: ‘It will help me to make a good choice’ 20 March 2023The Faculty of Humanities’ On-Campus Master’s Experience Day was a pleasantly busy event. The information sessions and corresponding information marke...
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How did trade networks arise in the third millennium BC? 17 March 2023Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, amber from the Baltic and tin from Tajikistan. In the third millennium BC objects and raw materials were transported ov...
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Green light for student housing in Oegstgeest part of Bio Science Park 17 March 2023Leiden University can start work on 300 student and 500 other dwellings in the Oegstgeest part of the Leiden Bio Science Park, with facilities includi...
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China? 14 March 2023Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story 13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections 13 March 2023The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...
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New portal helps students choose from 200 minors at 3 universities 13 March 2023As from April 2023 all students at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam will start using the eduXchange ...
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Student Mitchell takes part in water council elections: 'Young people don't know how important their vote is' 08 March 2023History student Mitchell Wiegand Bruss is taking part in the water council elections. Whereas until recently he had no idea what the governing body st...
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Successful Open Day for Humanities: ‘Here you feel how it really works’ 06 March 2023Full lecture halls, a crowded information fair and a queue for coffee in the basement: during the Open Day, the Faculty of Humanities was inundated wi...
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery) 03 March 2023Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, sci...
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Declaration of Equity helps study associations promote diversity and inclusion 02 March 2023Many study associations at Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden are working on diversity and inclusion. But as it’s such a big ...
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field' 02 March 2023Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in...
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’ 02 March 2023Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes ...