3,181 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Public website
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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.
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The transformative power of food
Creating a good life and new work values through foodwork?
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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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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The three universities in Zuid-Holland are abuzz with AI research in the field of ports and maritime. Three researchers explain. Part two in a series of five…
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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A long-term perspective on human niche construction and alteration of ecosystems
Dr. Katharine MacDonald (Faculty of Archaeology) sketches the background to a recent paper in Science Advances, co-authored by her and other members of the Liveable Planet team.
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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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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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Book Launch: Agon, Conflict and Mimesis in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Debate
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Diagnostic challenges of today's lung cancer pathology
PhD defence
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
PhD defence
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
PhD defence
- Online Master's Experience Day European Union Studies: Online Q&A
- Online Master's Experience Day Ancient History: Online Q&A
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PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Training
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Iron-immune interactions in Alzheimer's disease
PhD defence
- What's Next? Alumni speak about their research career
- What's Next? Alumni speak about their research career
- What's Next? Alumni speak about their research career
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Graduation ceremonies Advanced Master's Leiden Law School 2020
Graduation ceremony
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SNAP! The night sky through a Leidener’s lens
Exhibition
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Online Master's Experience Day Statistics & Data Science
Study information
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Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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Combatting violence against children: what are the lessons learnt?
In the context of the 2021 Day of General Discussion of the UN Committee on Rights of the Child, this time dedicated to alternative care, Defence for Children in collaboration with Leiden University has contributed with a paper on the 2019 Dutch Inquiry Committee on Historical Child Abuse in Alternative…
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Leiden University's Academic Challenge: deadline for presentations
Conference
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Symposium in honor of Adamantia Panagopoulou's PhD defence
Conference
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Leiden University Green Office / L.A.S. Terra Movie Night
Arts and culture
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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On-campus Master’s Experience Day: City Tours Leiden
Study information
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On-Campus Master's Experience Neerlandistiek: Proefcollege en Q&A
Study information
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Lecture, Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world
It is becoming increasingly common to collect data from children and young people through digital means. The impact of this so-called ‘dataveillance’ on children, who are monitored from birth via smartphones and Fitbits, is great.
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'Data breach at Jeugdriagg can have life-long consequences for these children'
An investigation by Dutch news site RTL Nieuws reveals that an error at the Regional Institute for Juvenile Outpatient Mental Healthcare (Jeugdriagg), has led to the files of children, many with serious psychological problems, being leaked.
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Arco Timmermans discusses the arrival of International Alert in The Hague
International peacebuilding organisation International Alert has moved to The Hague. Professor by special appointment Public Affairs Arco Timmermans understands very well why the organisation has chosen this city. Dutch radio show ‘De Ochtendspits’ hosted by BNR news radio asked him to elaborate.
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. P.D.S. Dijkstra
Valedictory lecture
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'Born Free - Mandela's Generation of Hope' by Ilvy Njiokiktjien
Exhibition
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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European security in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Debate
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Third Party Intervention to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Upon invitation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a large group of academics have submitted a third party intervention in a case against France.
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Graduation Ceremony Advanced LLM International Children’s Rights
Graduation Ceremony
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Stephanie Rap visiting lecturer at Renmin University of China Law School
From 9 until 20 October 2017 Stephanie Rap has visited the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing to teach a course titled Juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice: interdisciplinary perspectives. She was warmly welcomed by the vice-dean Prof. Yanan Shi and Ms. Lei Chen, head of the law school’s…
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Political influence of ‘women above stairs’
A new volume, co-edited by Nadine Akkerman of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, shows how ladies-in-waiting, by 'creatively manipulating their gender', often played a major role in shaping the political climate of Europe in the early modern period.
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The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?
Festival
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Graduation ceremony bachelor’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony