450 news items found
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry 04 May 2023Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem l...
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What do you do if your professor winks at you? 03 May 2023Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the poli...
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Freedom: International students and staff tell us what it means to them 03 May 2023On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that cannot be taken for granted in many countries. We asked international students and staff what ...
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Liveable Planet present at LUGO Sustainability Day 03 May 2023Liveable Planet, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme on sustainability, has a full presence at the LUGO Sustainability Day on Tuesday 9 Ma...
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Nicolien Mizee new writer in residence at Leiden University 01 May 2023Writer and columnist Nicolien Mizee will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence from autumn 2023.
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‘Not everyone has health goals top of mind’ 01 May 2023Doctors can fix a lot, but preventing or delaying disease is better. This often requires lifestyle changes, which turn out to be difficult. Sandra van...
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Shaping the university of the future. Leiden University joins Una Europa alliance 24 April 2023Leiden University is a member of the Una Europa European alliance. This partnership of 11 research-intensive universities is working to shape the univ...
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Results of the university elections 2023 21 April 2023The results of the 2023 university elections have been announced. Who will represent us on the university’s participation councils?
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'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact 21 April 2023Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in soci...
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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’ 19 April 2023Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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A tour of University Building Spui: ‘We’re about to create something wonderful here’ 18 April 2023A sneak preview of your future work or study place. That is a unique opportunity. Over twenty curious staff members and employees were given a tour of...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour 14 April 2023Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’ 12 April 2023After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both ...