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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’ 18 November 2021
Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society acces...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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What the campus at Leiden Bio Science Park will look like 15 November 2021
The university campus at Leiden Bio Science Park will change rapidly over the next few years. A short film shows the transformation to a full campus. ...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors 03 November 2021
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
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‘Heart rate and skin conductance predict romantic attraction’ 02 November 2021
Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some ...
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Declining trust in government: the low-trust society 01 November 2021
The Netherlands in September 2021 could be characterised as a low-trust society. Trust in the government has declined significantly in the past one-an...
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam 27 October 2021
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Gro...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 27 October 2021
In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...
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‘Learning with the City’ opens its doors in Leiden-Noord 26 October 2021
Bringing the community together, doing up the community centre or researching how to make gardens greener. Students now have a base in Leiden-Noord wh...
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021 25 October 2021
2021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solid...
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Public Administration specialist at sea: ‘I understand The Hague side of the Royal Navy’ 21 October 2021
From assistance in the event of natural disasters to peace-keeping missions. As a communication adviser, Leonoor van Poelgeest goes to all those desti...
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Lodewijk Govaerts new member of Board of Governors 18 October 2021
Lodewijk Govaerts has been appointed by Ingrid van Engelshoven, caretaker Minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), as a member of the Board...
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New programme brings education 'to the midst of society' 14 October 2021
In November a new extracurricular programme will begin: the Impact Challenges. Students will work together in small groups to solve problems, put forw...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors 14 October 2021
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture 12 October 2021
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust ...