450 news items found
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past 12 April 2023Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugu...
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University elections: get to know the student parties 11 April 2023The university elections are coming up. Sustainability, inclusion, student well-being… What do you think deserves more attention? From 17 to 20 April,...
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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The successful pilot with bring your own device exams at the Faculty of Archaeology 06 April 2023At Leiden University, more and more exams are being done digitally instead of on paper. Originally, Leiden University would provide the large quantiti...
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers signs international book contract with Penguin Press 06 April 2023Back in 2020, Dr Maikel Kuijpers started to write for The Correspondent. His articles offered readers a unique long-term insight into the materials th...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking 05 April 2023It is the seventh year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universi...
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer 04 April 2023The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other? Bart Barendregt, Professor...
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Playing bingo and walking with senior citizens for research into social cohesion 03 April 2023Playing bingo and Dutch shuffleboard and going for walks with senior citzens is regular fare for Marieke van der Heijden, a master’s student in Cultur...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Too late for your lecture? That’s a thing of the past with the new Kwartiertje pass 01 April 2023Being on time for a lecture can be hard for students. To make life easier, you can now request for a ‘Kwartiertje’ pass.
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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded 30 March 2023With an off-the-charts number of downloads, outstanding media coverage, and more than 300 tweets, a small team behind the Scientific Reports article l...
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Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius 30 March 2023Representatives of the Faculty of Archaeology recently traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius to repatriate human remains. The remains, ori...
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Field School 2023: We are back in Oss! 30 March 2023Monday, 3 April, the yearly field school for all first-year students at the Faculty of Archaeology will start. The municipality of Oss is welcoming ou...