450 news items found
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'The effect of the online world on adolescents' 06 July 2022
How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with incr...
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy? 06 July 2022
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Va...
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ESOF session on vaccines: ‘Infectious diseases know no borders’ 04 July 2022
How can Europe lead the way in vaccine development that is fast and for all? To answer this pressing question, Professor of Vaccinology Meta Roestenbe...
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ 30 June 2022
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leid...
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Citizen science project Heritage Quest wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 30 June 2022
Gelderland Heritage and Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology have won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 in the ‘research’ c...
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition 30 June 2022
After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was bu...
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme 28 June 2022
The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles 28 June 2022
New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 w...
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall? 28 June 2022
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend th...
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Honours students on fieldwork: ‘The police don’t need to be doing dances on TikTok’ 27 June 2022
Interviewing pupils and brainstorming with judges and lawyers. Students from the Trust in the Rule of Law honours course discovered how pupils at the ...
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Renewed Leiden Leadership Programme ‘provides tools to make a difference’ 27 June 2022
The Leiden Leadership Programme is going to innovate. After 12 years, the honours track for master’s students will get a new set-up. We asked two of t...
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First patient in the Netherlands successfully treated with stem cell gene therapy 22 June 2022
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital ...
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‘Build resilience in traumatised children and young people’ 21 June 2022
Many children experience trauma and if they are unable to deal with it properly, it can have a huge personal and societal effect. Building resilience ...
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Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen 17 June 2022
With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
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‘You feel connected to the people of a bygone era’ 16 June 2022
Documenting and preserving rock art in the Pakistani Himalayas; this was the aim of the ‘Karakorum Rescue Project’ to which students at the Honours Co...