450 news items found
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, is holding an open day on Sunday 25 September. It has had a branch at the Leiden Bio Science Park ...
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A more sustainable Leiden through citizen science 15 September 2022In the Leiden Municipality Challenge, 25 students investigated how Leiden could become more sustainable. In doing so, they enlisted the help of the ci...
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden 15 September 2022A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ot...
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world 15 September 2022Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...
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Ten years of International Studies: ‘During lectures I sometimes felt my brain was exploding with all the new insights.’ 14 September 2022The bachelor's programme in International Studies is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Ko Voskuilen was among the very first batch of students to fol...
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives 12 September 2022Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksm...
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From solar panels to tables made from old jackets: University opens its doors on Heritage Open Days 07 September 2022The theme of the Heritage Open Days Leiden on 10 and 11 September is sustainability. At four University locations guides will talk about the history o...
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Surprising insights, experiments and magic tricks at interactive ‘Wijsneus Festival’ 07 September 2022What should we do about litter in the countryside? Can you tell from camera images if someone is guilty? And what does your heart rate really look lik...
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International students start a master’s thanks to a LExS 06 September 2022This academic year 49 promising international students will start their master’s degree here thanks to a Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LEx...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’ 05 September 2022The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times...
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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last) 05 September 2022The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s ...
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International Studies students receive their diploma 02 September 2022On 2 September 2022, 300 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic P...
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Writer in residence Maxim Osipov: ‘Writing is the development of truth’ 29 August 2022Since criticising the war in Ukraine, Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov has fled Russia. Come September, he will be Leiden University’s wri...
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’ 29 August 2022Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest prog...