894 search results for “alumni in the spotlight” in the Staff website
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Journalism master’s students get to work in the city for Leiden 2022
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. University lecturer Jaap de Jong has created special assignments for the journalism master's students to celebrate this: they will go into the city to visualise knowledge from the city.
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Would you like to know more about the Faculty Council? Meet them in the atrium on 13 April and get free lunch!
Organisation
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Would you like to know more about the Faculty Council? Meet them in the atrium on 24 April and get free lunch
Organisation
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law” and there's “people law” and I've always been more interested in the latter.’
Not everyone benefits from the increased flexibility in the labour market. EU migrant workers engaged at the lower end of the employment spectrum are falling behind. According to Daniel Carter, the legal system is at fault and in his PhD thesis he explains the reasons why.
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Meet the Employer Campus Den Haag
Course
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Campus The Hague Career Event 2024
Course, Career Event
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Innovating Cell Pharmacy with stem cells
Lecture
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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In the Making #1: Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes
Lecture, Conversation
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to know more about the Faculty Council? Come and join us for a drink in the Foobar on 21 March
Organisation
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Hans-Martien ten Napel participates in The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism Global Summit
The Global Summit, which took place from 12-16 January 2021, is an initiative by Richard Albert, the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Founder & Director of the International Forum on the Future…
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From discovery to business: 'In the lab, we often don't realise that we are working to help an immense number of patients'
'It gave our team a big boost to hear that our work was valuable,' says medical chemist Elmer Maurits about the moment they won the Venture Challenge. With their company Iprotics, they want to develop a drug that can better treat patients with autoimmune diseases and blood cancers. 25,000 euros of prize…
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Algorithms and the Rule of Law in the Justice System: Melanie Fink on the Future of Justice in Estonia and Beyond
On 24 March 2023, the University of Tartu, Estonia hosted a Workshop on ‘'Algorithms, Rule of Law, and the Future of Justice: Implications in the Estonian Justice System’.
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Working together in the Leiden Healthy Society Center: ‘It’s only when you make your research visible that you find each other'
As coordinator and lead promoter respectively of the Leiden Healthy Society Center, psychologists Sandra van Dijk and Anke Klein use interdisciplinary collaboration to resolve the major health problems of the present day. How are they going to do that in the coming period?
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Workshop ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison'
Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison’.
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty
2023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this year overview: we take you through the most important moments and news items month of each month.
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Leiden Law Cast: reverend Ruben Van Zwieten
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Meet our international students!
The Week of the International Students, from 14 – 18 November is an initiative of Nuffic. The aim of this week is to showcase the importance of an international experience for both Dutch and international students. This year’s theme Meet the world, make the change highlights the positive change students…
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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Opening of Academic Year on sustainability: optimism and criticism go hand in hand
The theme of the Opening of the Academy Year on 4 September was sustainability and how the university could take the lead as a change agent. How is it going about this and what else can it do? There was also room for a critical note.
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What makes us ill?
Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, stress. The exposome as both culprit and chance. Large-scale research is being carried out into this at Leiden. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical…
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Positive feedback will give the mentoring project a follow-up
Helping first-year students at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs find their way in a rapidly changing university world because of Covid-19. That was the goal of the mentor project that has been running since this academic year. At the end of January, the first phase ends and in February new…
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Flaws in the Flow: Investigating Gaps in the Governance of Post-Consumer Textile in the Netherlands
Workshop
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Elephants in the Room
Lecture
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a lot of people and build up a network, which can always be useful in the future.’
Xander, student Public Administration, did an internship at the Marine Corps Training Centre. During his internship, he worked on automating the system of logistics requests. Now he is working as a working student for the training centre.
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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Van de Waal Lecture 2022: Futurism and Europe: The aesthetics of a new world
Alumni event, Lecture
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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The mind in the courtroom
PhD defence
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Participate and create in the ELS Atelier
Course
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A ‘Little Armenia’ in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Dutch Excavations in the Eastern Nile Delta
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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Public Leadership in the Digital Age
Debate
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The Story of Houses in the Grassfields
PhD defence
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Urban Systems in the Roman Near East
PhD defence
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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Work-in-Progress: Leaving the master and into the desert. Slaves escapes in the Spanish Sahara in the 1940s and 1950s
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Workshop How to find a job in the Netherlands
Study support, Career and apply for jobs
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference