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Van Bergen Prize winner Archery Attack has growth potentialDutch and international students brandishing bows and arrows fire at each other on the fields of the University Sports Centre on 11 May. This is the a...
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Definitive report: positive verdict on quality assurance at Leiden UniversityLeiden University has undergone a second institutional accreditation and audit (ITK), and the verdict on its quality assurance is once again positive....
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Magic moments at Museum NightLeiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Grand opening of the 444 cycle routeLeiden University is 444 years old, and to celebrate 220 cyclists took to the saddle on 11 May and followed the new 44.4 km route around Leiden, The H...
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Inspiring Education Festival brings together students and lecturersHow small steps can lead to big change: that was the theme of the Leiden Education Festival. Students and lecturers came to Scheltema on 9 May to shar...
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University to strengthen collaboration with The Hague University of Applied SciencesLeiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences are going to increase their teaching and research collaboration. They signed a collabor...
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Poverty in Leiden tackled in Honours Class on social innovationHow can business strategies help us solve social problems? This was researched by students of the Master Honours Class 'Social Innovation in Action' o...
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Over 3 million digital objects available from Leiden’s Special CollectionsLeiden University Libraries (UBL) is making over 3 million digital objects (more than 60TB) available worldwide for education, research and the genera...
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Anxiety traits are visible in the brainQuestionnaires or concentration tasks can be used to screen for anxiety, but so too can EEG recordings – at least indirectly. The frequent mind wander...
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Leiden psychology student is distant relative of RembrandtBenson van der Bij is a family member of Holland's most famous master: Rembrandt van Rijn. What does he think of this relationship? And did he know th...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturersStudying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC to intensify collaborationErasmus MC, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Delft University of Technology wish to structurally intensify and upscale their academic collaboration, p...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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Student section of University Council more fragmentedIn the University elections in April, the eight student seats on the University Council have gone to six parties, and newcomers the Liberal Student Pa...
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Podcast: A plunge into the cesspits of LeidenArchaeologist Roos van Oosten is studying Leiden's medieval cesspits. And on the basis of her work she reaches a surprising conclusion: the Middle Age...