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A busy early summer for the SETinSTONE team at Salamis, Athens, and the Argolid
In June 2016, Dr. Ann Brysbaert and her SETinSTONE team were invited to participate in the fieldwork training season on Salamis island in Greece.
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Catalin Popa’s Leiden experience: “Archaeology needs to contribute to society.”
Originally from Romania, Catalin Popa has been working at our Faculty as a Postdoc for two years now. He is a landscape archaeologist with a deep interest in the role of archaeology in society. “We should also produce a message for non-academics. One that is shaped for people that don’t have the time…
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Teachers and lecturers broaden their perspective of Islam
Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and university lecturers went on a fact-finding trip to Morocco accompanied by experts from NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Morocco). What did they learn from…
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’
Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. The faculty’s 'embedded philosopher', as Dean Kolen likes to call him, is hard to pin down in terms of the usual specialties at the faculty because of…
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€10.6 million for innovative toolboxes to tackle brain cancer
Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam (Uva) and Leiden together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute have received a €10,6 million ERC Synergy Grant to develop innovative therapeutic approaches to target glioblastoma. This is a deadly primary brain tumour for which no curing…
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy.
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Debate: ‘A Crisis on the Rise? The Impact of Violence and Impunity on Mexican Society’
Mexico is currently facing an unprecedented social and political crisis, with expanding criminal and political violence, rampant impunity and crumbling political institutions. Next to the daily report of anonymous victims of violence, last summer in Central Mexico at least 15 citizens were executed…
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From excavation to public outreach: our bachelor's students experienced the full cycle of archaeology
In May and June of 2021, Bachelor 1 and 2 students of the Faculty of Archaeology joined in the excavation at Oss. After the fieldwork itself, a second post-excavations week started in Leiden where each of them participated in small groups conducting archaeological find processing and working on creative…
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Herenboeren Rotterdam: Farming for the Future
Consumers are encouraged to think of food production and consumption as amoral activities – Michiel Korthals in his book Goed Eten: Filosofie van voeding en landbouw (2019, 353)
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Doctor of tropical medicine on Terschelling
Operating on tsunami victims, coordinating emergency aid during a civil war and the croaking of frogs in the surgery: Menno Swier worked as a doctor of tropical medicine in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. He is now a GP on Terschelling and here too there is never a dull moment.
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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How Clinical Technology will change healthcare
In spring 2020, the country was facing a potential lack of hospital ventilators for the huge numbers of Covid-19 patients. In response, Clinical Technology students designed an emergency device in the space of just three weeks. ’These students become 80% doctor and 80% engineer.’
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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Lion Steenvoorde-van der PuttenAdministratief Shared Service Centre
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jordy Feenstra-van Leeuwen
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Elisabeth de Kler-van der Poel
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Marijn Stipdonk-van der GeestFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maureen Rutten-van Mölken
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Caroline Spaargaren-van Riel
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Ton Anbeek van der MeydenFaculty of Humanities
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Simone Heidt-van der LubbeBestuursbureau
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Anne van der Sluis
Science
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Teun Versteeg-van Leerdam
Science
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Wil van der Voort
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Susan Lovink-van Wezel
Expertisecentrum SOZ
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Monica de Goede-van Dorp
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Elisabeth Falter-van den Haak
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Esther Rietkerk-van der Schoor
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sonja Schermer-van den BergFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Philine Hendriks-van den Tol
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Marjolijn Hinke-van DelftScience
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Marjolein Kuijt-van RijnUniversitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Riekje Boumlak-van WierenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Astrid Biesjot-van Houten
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Ellen de Roo-van der VisAdministratief Shared Service Centre
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Charlotte Nijgh-van KooijScience
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Seino Clifford Kocq van Breugel
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonie de Vreugd-van de MastAdministratief Shared Service Centre
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Leonie Wolswinkel-van DijkhuizenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Emmy Zwetsloot-van ReisenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Metaly de Roode-van der Laan
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Miriam Van der veerScience
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Karin Podda-van VeenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vera Grechukhina-van der Linden
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjon van Straten-FennemaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Karin Schrader-van der Geest
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf