450 news items found
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The dean Mark Rutgers speaks at penultimate session of flash campaign 15 July 2024After the new government announced its plans to cut expenditure on academic education, the Faculty of Humanities launched the flash campaign ‘Stop the...
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Start of construction of new University Sports Centre celebrated 12 July 2024On 11 July 2024, a gathering was held to celebrate the start of the construction of the new University Sports Centre (USC). Rugby players and a pole d...
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 2024 10 July 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research:...
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Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor 09 July 2024Lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor. She will deliver the Cleveringa lecture on 26 November ...
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New student accommodation in Oegstgeest a step closer 05 July 2024The construction of 285 student studios on land owned by Leiden University is a step closer. On Thursday, student housing organisation DUWO and the Re...
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Five tips against loneliness from student adviser Roos ter Elst 04 July 2024Your student days are the best time of your life, full of parties and friendships for life. Right? Well, not always. Especially at the beginning of yo...
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Ethics committee for partnerships launched 02 July 2024The ‘Committee for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Partnerships’ is being launched this month. This committee, created by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl a...
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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery 01 July 2024Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that estab...
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Students work on a cold case: ‘We look in a different way than the police’ 01 July 2024Sixteen master’s students from a variety of disciplines are helping The Hague Police to find new clues in a cold case. ‘The photographs are like the o...
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Connecting the Doelen complex to the Thermal Energy Storage in 2025 27 June 2024Leiden University is working hard to make its buildings more sustainable, also on the Humanities Campus. An important step in this context is the cons...
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery 27 June 2024What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building fe...
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Academics start campaign against government cuts 27 June 2024Academics from Leiden University have started a campaign against cuts at universities. From 26 June to 11 July, they are giving lunchtime pitches in L...
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Video: Leiden archaeologists digging in Oss 26 June 2024Leiden archaeologists have been digging into the municipality of Oss’s past for 50 years now and students have gained their first experience of fieldw...
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’ 25 June 2024Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except ...
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Dozens of security measures for academics 24 June 2024Between November 2022 and December 2023, 45 one-off and 14 structural security measures were taken for academics or university staff. This is what it ...