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Master student Maddalena Centanni awarded with Arenberg-Coimbra Group PrizeFormer masterstudent Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Maddalena Centanni will be awarded the 2020 Arenberg Coimbra Prize for Erasmus Students. Centanni spe...
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‘We will offer a warm welcome to our students, both in person and online’The University buildings are partially reopening to students. And first-years will be able to discover real-life Leiden or The Hague during the introd...
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Hester Bijl on racism, inclusiveness and diversity at Leiden UniversityWe talked to Hester Bijl about the worldwide protests sparked off by the death of George Floyd. A demonstration against racism will also be held in Le...
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Leiden University to participate in Cultural Talent to the Top monitorThis year, Leiden University will participate for the first time in the Cultural Talent to the Top monitor. This will provide insight into the Univers...
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Paul Wouters on what the Black Lives Matter-movement means for Social and Behavioural SciencesGeorge Floyd's death still leads to fierce protests against police violence and racism on a daily basis in the United States and abroad. We asked Paul...
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Rectores Magnifici: ‘Give students more opportunity to travel by public transport’Meeting in person is crucial to higher education. It would therefore be inadvisable only to allow students to use public transport between 11:00 and 1...
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Our expectations shape our health
Positive expectations about a medicine may help it to work more effectively, even if you tell patients about this placebo effect. The reverse, the noc...
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Leiden University 20th in SustainaBul rankingLeiden University has come 20th in the annual SustainaBul ranking. The SustainaBul is a prize awarded to the most sustainable higher education institu...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Diversity officer Aya Ezawa on George Floyd and racism: ‘this is a time for reflection’The death of George Floyd has led to fierce protests against police violence in the United States and beyond. What effects are we seeing in our Unive...
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University election results: little change, turnout somewhat lowerThe results of the 2020 University elections have been announced. With the exception of a few seats, little will change in the University Council in c...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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Anne-Laura van Harmelen appointed to new chair Brain, Security and ResilienceLeiden University will appoint Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen as Professor of Brain, Security and Resilience at the Institute of Education and Child Studi...
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‘The details are crucial in court’Researcher Gezinus Wolters regularly has to determine in court whether a witness statement is reliable. How does he go about his work?
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‘Don’t just lump together child abuse and child neglect’Child abuse and child neglect are often seen as one and the same problem. But it can be useful to separate the two to gain more insight into the chara...