1,180 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Staff website
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Let’s Connect webinar: Open communication
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
PhD defence
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Beyond the trenches
PhD defence
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Unravelling cell fate decisions through single cell methods and mathematical models
PhD defence
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Super-Earth Atmospheres
PhD defence
- IBL Symposium 2022
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Neutrino: Documentary & Q&A with the directors
Studium Generale
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What's Next? - Alumni in Tech
Lecture
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Stop! Hey, what's that sound?
PhD defence
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Andrew Gawthorpe in The Guardian about the Republicans’ more radical agenda
University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe argues in The Guardian that the Republican's new agenda for a second Trump term is more radical than the first. He says that they seek to take control of federal agencies by replacing civil servants with ‘American First footsoldiers’.
- Meijers Lecture and New Year’s Reception
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Let's Connect: webinar The Active Bystander
Communication, Personal development
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Today’s geopolitics: Managing the known unknowns?
Lecture, Seminar
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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International Women's Day 2023 @ Wijnhaven
Conference
- New Year's reception Faculty of Humanities
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‘Try to connect with as many people as possible during your internship’
Micah DenBraber studied at Leiden University College in The Hague while pursuing an internship at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a self-proclaimed ‘think-and-do-tank’, where he built partnerships with the philanthropic sector, among other things.
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Remarkable PhD research: diagnosing sepsis in premature babies
How can we diagnose the life-threatening condition sepsis in premature babies as quickly and accurately as possible? That is what PhD student Manchu Thangavelu from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) wants to figure out.
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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ALFA New Year’s lecture and drinks
Alumni event, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Defending Nature’s Rights: Paradoxes and Challenges
Masterclass
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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No exams or lectures, but building a radio telescope with empty paint cans
No more lectures and exams for the Radio Astronomy course taught by Michiel Brentjens. The corona crisis is a moment of reflection that has changed his whole way of teaching. Instead of being in front of the class, he lets his students build a radio telescope with paint cans.
- Presentation of Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize
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Award ceremony Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award
Prijsuitreiking
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Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry
PhD defence
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PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Training
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Leiden students advise the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
On Wednesday 18 May, the students of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights presented their work to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with the aim to provide recommendations on how to make its decision more accessible to children.
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Generating Freedom; Hegel's Conception of Political Order
PhD defence
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Conrad Gessner´s Fish Books (1556-1560)
PhD defence
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
- Meijers Lecture and New Year's Reception 2024
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Online Information Session U.S. Business Law Academy
Lecture
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
PhD defence
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
PhD defence