450 news items found
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’ 03 July 2025
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she ...
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Snacks, drinks, poster presentations: Education Market inspires teachers 03 July 2025
On Thursday 19 June, the sun-drenched garden of the Huizinga Building was the setting for the Education Market. Over snacks and drinks, colleagues ins...
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What should the university do? Questions and emotions at university conversation on Israel-Palestine 02 July 2025
Should we cut our ties with Israel or maintain them? The event ‘A university conversation on Israel/Palestine’ on 1 July revealed the depth of feeling...
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What will it be like to study in 2075? Uni-visionaries help shape the university’s future 02 July 2025
LEGO creations, a clothesline of visions and a journey into the past and the future: just some of the highlights of Uni-vision day, where creatives de...
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A campus in bloom: new book shows spectacular metamorphosis of Leiden Bio Science Park 01 July 2025
The university campus at the Leiden Bio Science Park is flourishing. Amid lush greenery, a modern and vibrant campus has taken shape. Students, resear...
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New partnership aims to enhance public sector leadership 30 June 2025
The newly launched Public Leadership in Collaboration partnership has been designed to enhance leadership within and across public sector organisation...
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Leideners find more than 2,000 species in urban biodiversity inventory 30 June 2025
Around 1,300 Leideners found 2,265 species during the Expeditie Stadsnutuur urban biodiversity inventory. ‘It’s been a huge success’, says scientific ...
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond 27 June 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shap...
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal Concert 27 June 2025
Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of t...
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’ 26 June 2025
How did people in the past deal with change? And how did such change influence personal and collective identities? For her research on these questions...
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment 25 June 2025
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what...
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts 24 June 2025
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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‘I can feel the pain on both sides of the border’ 24 June 2025
How can the Netherlands help secure a peaceful future for Israel and Palestine? At a recent meeting at the university, two remarkable speakers shared ...
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Jeanette Wagenaar writes about Louise Six: ‘I wanted to give a voice to women in history’ 24 June 2025
When Jeanette Wagenaar read Simone van der Vlugt's De amulet (The Amulet) at the age of eleven, she decided that she too wanted to write a historical ...
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Architect Aleida Nijland: ‘The building will become greener in many ways’ 23 June 2025
Now that the Herta Mohr building is fully operational, construction work is moving to the other side of the University Library. Over the coming years,...