450 news items found
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Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset 13 May 2022
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Awa...
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First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy 12 May 2022
Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A...
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Minors in AI, Data & Digitialisation in Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam 11 May 2022
The universities of Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam are working together to show their students what artificial intelligence (AI) means for their own fiel...
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Construction of alternative Humanities Campus is feasible 10 May 2022
Leiden University can build an alternative Humanities Campus on its own available land at the current location in the city. This is the conclusion of ...
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’ 09 May 2022
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his ex...
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football 04 May 2022
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked o...
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’ 02 May 2022
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what...
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University elections: student parties introduce themselves 28 April 2022
Better links with the job market, diversity, quality of education, student well-being and free coffee. All these are issues that the student parties t...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022
From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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Leiden University turns the heating down by two degrees 22 April 2022
The thermostat in Leiden University’s buildings will be turned down by two degrees. The temperature will also be adjusted in rooms that are cooled. Th...
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Honours Class makes cultural heritage tangible: ‘You are dealing with people’ 22 April 2022
An Honours Class about the ostensibly unrecognisable worlds of insular Southeast Asia teaches students a fundamental piece of wisdom: "We do not diffe...
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’ 21 April 2022
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal ...
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’ 21 April 2022
The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Meet the new study advisor Cleody van der Eijk: ‘I want to help my students to find their next step in life’ 21 April 2022
Cleody van der Eijk recently started as the new study advisor and exchange coordinator at Archaeology. Aside from helping students out when they encou...