450 news items found
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Step by Step to the Future: A Conversation Between Two Deans 10 February 2025
As one prepares for the final sprint, the other stands ready at the starting blocks: in just a few weeks, Dean Mark Rutgers will pass the baton to his...
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’ 07 February 2025
An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freed...
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From celestial bodies to plant bodies: exhibition brings together worlds of plants and planets 06 February 2025
The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus...
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Major Leiden symposium on TB bacteria 05 February 2025
More than 1.3 million people worldwide die of tuberculosis (TB) each year, making research on its prevention and control essential. Researchers from v...
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Podcast 'Mind the Gap' bridges the gap between graduating and finding a first job 04 February 2025
This week, we are launching the new podcast Mind the Gap, an initiative that helps students navigate the transition from graduation to their first job...
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New University Sports Centre reaches highest point 04 February 2025
In a topping out ceremony on Thursday 30 January, the new sports centre celebrated reaching its highest point and looked ahead to the future. The univ...
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago 03 February 2025
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February. Just like i...
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In extremis: five extremes in 450 years of Leiden research 03 February 2025
By looking at what is different, researchers often discover the special, the unusual. And that has already brought a wealth of highlights – also in Le...
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language 31 January 2025
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. A...
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts 28 January 2025
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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New Faculty of Humanities spending reduction plan 28 January 2025
The Faculty of Humanities has shared a new spending reduction plan with its students and staff. Although the plans are less sweeping than previous one...
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When university isn’t the obvious choice 27 January 2025
They confounded expectations and went to university anyway – as a woman of colour, a working-class student or refugee... Throughout the centuries the ...
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New project seeks best collaboration methods for creating carbon-neutral neighbourhoods 27 January 2025
How do you get citizens more involved in energy transition projects? This is the central question of the new transdisciplinary research project EmPowe...
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‘If we want to be really inclusive, we need to step outside our comfort zone’ 24 January 2025
The experiential expertise of people with a disability needs to be integrated in diversity & inclusion policy. This message was the common thread at t...
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Bringing aid to Ukraine: ‘Now others were also benefitting from my studies’ 23 January 2025
Russian Studies master’s student Fien Lurvink was nominated as Leidsch Dagblad’s Person of the Year for her charity work as chair of the Keep Them War...