753 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Student website
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‘Try to connect with as many people as possible during your internship’
Micah DenBraber studied at Leiden University College in The Hague while pursuing an internship at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a self-proclaimed ‘think-and-do-tank’, where he built partnerships with the philanthropic sector, among other things.
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Today’s geopolitics: Managing the known unknowns?
Lecture, Seminar
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Remarkable PhD research: diagnosing sepsis in premature babies
How can we diagnose the life-threatening condition sepsis in premature babies as quickly and accurately as possible? That is what PhD student Manchu Thangavelu from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) wants to figure out.
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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International Women's Day 2023 @ Wijnhaven
Conference
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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ALFA New Year’s lecture and drinks
Alumni event, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Online Master’s Experience: Career Service
Study information
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Thesis and papers
When writing a thesis or paper you must make good use of the insights you have gained during your lectures and studies so far. You should also refer to relevant literature and carry out your own research on the topic.
- Presentation of Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize
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Leiden students advise the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
On Wednesday 18 May, the students of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights presented their work to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with the aim to provide recommendations on how to make its decision more accessible to children.
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On-campus Master’s Experience Day: Faculty of Law
Study information
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Festival showcases anthropology students’ work: scope of visual ethnography is widening
Visual ethnography has become an integral part of anthropology in Leiden. The students from the master’s specialisation will present their work at the LUVE festival on 8, 9 and 10 October. ‘For a film you have to negotiate with your research participants.’
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The three universities in Zuid-Holland are abuzz with AI research in the field of ports and maritime. Three researchers explain. Part two in a series of five…
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Graduation ceremonies Advanced Master's Leiden Law School 2020
Graduation ceremony
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Symposium in honor of Adamantia Panagopoulou's PhD defence
Conference
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Leiden University Green Office / L.A.S. Terra Movie Night
Arts and culture
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On-campus Master’s Experience Day: City Tours Leiden
Study information
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Lecture, Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world
It is becoming increasingly common to collect data from children and young people through digital means. The impact of this so-called ‘dataveillance’ on children, who are monitored from birth via smartphones and Fitbits, is great.
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'Born Free - Mandela's Generation of Hope' by Ilvy Njiokiktjien
Exhibition
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
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European security in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Debate
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Graduation Ceremony Advanced LLM International Children’s Rights
Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation ceremony bachelor’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?
Festival
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Online Master’s Experience: Practical Matters: Admission & Application
Study information
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Graduation ceremony bachelor's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony