450 news items found
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Responses to Mare newspaper report on University Council’s advice against reappointing Executive Board President 26 September 2024An article in Leiden University’s Mare newspaper on 24 September states that the University Council advised against reappointing President of the Exec...
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Come to the (science) fair on 3 October! 24 September 2024Want to find out how to assemble a human skeleton? Do you know what chemistry can be found around you? And are you easily fooled by fake news? Discove...
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Why do a Master Honours Challenge? ‘Step away from your own square millimetre’ 24 September 2024Learning how to work with people from different disciplines, that’s what Master Honours Challenges are all about. In teams, students address a challen...
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How do we make choices in an overwhelming world? That is what Lotte van Dillen will study as new Professor Social Cognition and Decision Making 23 September 2024Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decis...
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Three Leiden students in the running for an ECHO Award 23 September 2024Three Leiden students are in the running for the annual ECHO Award. This prize is for students from non-Western backgrounds who are actively engaged i...
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal 20 September 2024The exhibition ‘Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades’ at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alum...
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Personal Professional Skills Lab: a certificate for the development of FSW bachelor students 20 September 2024In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-...
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Diabolical dilemmas in timeless theatre about the Relief of Leiden 12 September 2024What is freedom worth in times of hunger? ‘Beleg’ is a modern interpretation of Lucretia van Merken’s 1774 play. With five performances in Leiden’s Sc...
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Science for Sustainable Societies: a new interdisciplinary bachelor’s programme 12 September 2024How do you tackle environmental challenges and societal transitions from an interdisciplinary perspective? Starting from September 2025 students will ...
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‘Partying is fine but we still need to protest’ 09 September 2024Leiden University was present for the second time at the second Leiden Pride on Saturday. With a boat with room for 60 students and staff, decorated i...
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Prepared for pain? The impact of the nocebo effect on people with chronic pain 09 September 2024People who have negative expectations about a treatment actually experience more pain. Merve Karacaoglu discovered in her PhD research that anxious an...
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Executive Board member Martijn Ridderbos to leave Leiden University 06 September 2024Vice-chairman of the Executive Board Martijn Ridderbos will leave Leiden University at the end of this year. As of 1 January 2025, he will take up a n...
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Four researchers of FSW receive an ERC starting grant 05 September 2024The Starting Grant is awarded annually by the European Research Council (ERC). This year, 51 researchers in the Netherlands will receive a Starting Gr...
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1.5 million awarded for research into misinformation among youth 05 September 2024Developmental psychologist Ili Ma has been awarded an ERC grant to investigate misinformation among teenagers, aiming to bolster their resilience agai...
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Faculty Opening of the Academic Year: ''Navigating complexities'' 04 September 2024The social sciences are vital in navigating complexities, fostering understanding and bridging divides. This was celebrated during the faculty opening...