450 news items found
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’ 10 June 2024
The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the...
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Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’ 05 June 2024
They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days ...
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Experiment in Leiden SSH labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head 04 June 2024
You would normally not see public administration experts and water authority officials in a laboratory, let alone together. This is changing now, spec...
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FGGA students look back: ‘My life has never been busier, but I would not change it’ 03 June 2024
It is the final stretch for the students of FGGA. Summer is approaching and they are working hard to complete everything before the summer holidays. W...
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’ 30 May 2024
Dick Schoof can also be called the neighbour of the faculty in The Hague. Especially from his role at the NCTV, he worked together a lot with Leiden U...
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Citizen Science Netherlands network officially launched 29 May 2024
The Citizen Science Netherlands (CS-NL) network was officially launched this month with the aid of an Open Science NL grant. The new vision for this n...
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Migrants cost European governments less than their native-born citizens do 29 May 2024
Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. In many cases, they make a more positive contribution tha...
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery 28 May 2024
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. In their own wa...
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Leiden biologists find nanoplastics in developing heart 28 May 2024
Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos...
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‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’ 27 May 2024
Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always rema...
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar 27 May 2024
Being in class with students more than 8,000 kilometres away might sound impossible, but Jyothi Thrivikraman, Assistant Professor at Leiden University...
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Why search engines and chatbots are becoming more alike 24 May 2024
Search engines are getting better at answering our questions. And chatbots are increasingly likely to search the internet for relevant sources. ‘Searc...
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Academic freedom, protests and a safe campus: where are we and how are we going to move forward? 22 May 2024
Leiden University has had a turbulent week. There have been protests inside and outside our buildings that have evoked reactions, and students and sta...
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Attention to education and culture at lowest point in 20 years 22 May 2024
After an extensive content analysis of the coalition agreement, a sharp fall can be seen in the focus on education & culture, science & technology and...
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Internship at well-known newspaper in Paris: ‘I got to interview a minister’ 22 May 2024
Zoé is a second-year bachelor student at LUC, where she is studying Culture, History & Society. Last summer, she did an internship at Le Parisien news...