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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022
SRON, 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 2022
In 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 2022
A ‘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 2022
Halfway 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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Kilian de Kruyf Molina: ‘I would recommend doing an internship if you want to gain more work experience’ 13 September 2022
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on inte...
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives 12 September 2022
Care 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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Prinsjesfestival & Prinsjesdag: overview of events organised in and around the University in The Hague 08 September 2022
The third Tuesday of September is getting closer and that means ‘Prinsjesdag’ (Little Prince Day) and the opening of our own faculty’s academic year. ...
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Retrospective HOPweek 2022: making new friends and form bonds with students from all over the world 07 September 2022
On 22 August was the start of the HOPweek, the introduction week for first year students studying at Campus The Hague of Leiden University. First year...
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From solar panels to tables made from old jackets: University opens its doors on Heritage Open Days 07 September 2022
The 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 2022
What 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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More attention than ever for digitalisation within the government: ‘A good thing’ 06 September 2022
Minister of Digitalisation Alexandra van Huffelen will give a guest lecture on the government’s ambitions in the field of digitalisation on Monday 12 ...
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International students start a master’s thanks to a LExS 06 September 2022
This 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 2022
The 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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Graduation Security Studies: ‘Stay curious’ 01 September 2022
On Wednesday 31 August 2022, the graduation ceremony of the BSc Security Studies took place. The ceremony was opened by programme director Daan Weggem...
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Writer in residence Maxim Osipov: ‘Writing is the development of truth’ 29 August 2022
Since criticising the war in Ukraine, Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov has fled Russia. Come September, he will be Leiden University’s wri...