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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science: Paul Wouters shares a glimpse of his double life
Paul Wouters came to the Faculty of Science for a few months to help with organising day-to-day issues after the previous dean left. This has involved rather more than he expected. ‘I can now really understand why every faculty has its own dean.’
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Change manager Frans de Haas is working on the future of the MI
Frans de Haas started his work at the MI with a clear mandate. Listening and talking are what he will mainly be doing ‘My role is to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in the new situation.’
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Developing tailored information for institutes on research grants
Sieger van den Aardweg is Knowledge Base Manager for the Grant Development Team at the Strategy and Academic Affairs Directorate, part of Administration and Central Services. He is working within the Leiden Research Support programme on tailored information provision, in collaboration with several institutes.…
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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Medical Delta professor Andrew Webb: ‘In The Netherlands, people are much more open to cooperation’
Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI techniques that offer new opportunities in both developed and developing countries. Webb is a professor at the Radiology Department of the LUMC and,…
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Eliciting preferences for EU-level social protection in the context of global challenges
Seminar
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series: The role of science communication in the medical field
Lecture, Part of Open Lecture Series
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with with Naja Hulvej Rod
Lecture
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Global Impact in Health Symposium
Symposium | Leiden2022
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Intercultural and inclusive communication in an academic context
Communication, Personal development, Diversity
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Supervising PhD candidates
Management
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Opening Exposome-Scan research facility
Conference, Opening
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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Let’s Connect webinar: Open communication
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Programming in Python
Training
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The Power of Expression
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Programming in Python
Training
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Global Voice Safari: An expedition into World Music
Arts and leisure
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FSW Faculty Lunch on Mental Health at Work
Conference
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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HI The Hague Student Experience at Liberation Festival The Hague
Festival
- Leiden Research Support Network event: Research Ethics, why it matters
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Blended Learning: Using digital tools for teaching
Didactics
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Knowledge utilisation
Research
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
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The active bystander
Communication, Personal development
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Pushing the Frontiers of Federated Learning: From Security Applications to Mitigation of Poisoning Attack
Lecture
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How to factcheck fake news?
Alumni event
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R: Introduction (modular)
Career development, Working effectively
- Student Well-being Staff Symposium - Translating student well-being from vision into practice
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Vitality Week 2023: Get your shot of vitamin resilience
Course
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Leiden Research Support Conference
Conference
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Fast-Tracking Climate Resilience with AI: a Stakeholder Discussion
Panel discussion
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First images from the James Webb telescope
Lecture
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Statistical Learning and Prediction
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Statistical analysis in R
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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To explore the drug space smarter: Artificial intelligence in drug design for G protein-coupled receptors
PhD defence
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Chinese Calligraphy for everybody
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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LTA lunch lecture - Formative assessment to stimulate student involvement
Lecture
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'Hello World!' lecture, by Frans W. Saris
Lecture
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Efficient Deep Learning
Lecture
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information