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Health Day wins LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize 19 April 2022Health Day has won the LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize (LUF RAP). This 5,000-euro prize is awarded to an initiative by Leiden University s...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention 14 April 2022Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are ...
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'Students can come to me if they feel they need help’ 06 April 2022Guiding people and helping them flourish. That's what Alexandra Blank's work is about. She has two jobs at W&N and she likes them both. ‘It is precise...
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Leiden University signs Declaration on Student Well-Being 06 April 2022Leiden University and four other parties have signed a declaration in which they agree to improve the well-being of students in Leiden. They signed th...
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme 05 April 2022Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the...
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Better treatment of skin diseases thanks to NWA grant of 11.7 million euros 31 March 2022Patients with skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis, sometimes spend a lifetime searching for the right medication. To help these patients faster...
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Classroom scanners in the Lipsius building tested by ethical hackers 29 March 2022To check whether the classroom scanners are secure, a ‘pen test’ was performed in the Lipsius building on Monday 28 March. This involved switching on ...
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Leiden University may open new building in the centre of The Hague 28 March 2022The Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University and CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) will together try to realise a University building in the fo...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis 24 March 2022About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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Three new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minors 22 March 2022Leiden-Delft-Erasmus is introducing three new minors this year: Space Missions, (Re)imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, and Living Education L...
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Public pen test of classroom scanners in Lipsius 21 March 2022On Monday 28 March a ‘pen test’ will be carried out to check the security of the classroom scanners. These people counters in University buildings wer...
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Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl on Palestine event: ‘Let’s have an academic debate with room for different perspectives’ 21 March 2022There’s been a lot of commotion about the ‘Apartheid in Israel’ panel discussion being cancelled. The organisers, Students for Palestine, wanted to h...
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Understanding superconductivity comes closer with major ERC grant for Milan Allan 17 March 2022Physicist Milan Allan will build an instrument that will bring superconductivity research further. He has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 ...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction' 17 March 2022Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...