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Catalin Popa’s Leiden experience: “Archaeology needs to contribute to society.”
Originally from Romania, Catalin Popa has been working at our Faculty as a Postdoc for two years now. He is a landscape archaeologist with a deep inte...
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GOLD MATTERS: launch of NORFACE/Belmont Forum project on sustainability transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold MiningAn international and multi-disciplinary research consortium spent two days at Leiden University for the launch of their ‘GOLD MATTERS’ project, funded...
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About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loanLeiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
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The body's own marijuana as inspiration for drug researchEndocannabinoids - the body's own marijuana - are promising departure points for drug research. Professor of Molecular Physiology Mario van der Stelt ...
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Mariana Gkliati publishes blog on the new Frontex RegulationMariana Gkliati published recently a blog on the latest proposal of the European Commission on a new European Border and Coast Guard Regulation, entit...
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Getting to know Dean Jan Kolen: “I would describe myself as a connector”Professor Jan Kolen was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology on September 1, 2018. We sat down with him and interviewed him about his backgrou...
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Explore the universe in VRNavigating through the universe with VR glasses? It is possible, with the help of the new computer application built by Marc Driessen, a Computer Scie...
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Student Igor Djakovic awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler ScholarshipIgor recently started his research master's in Archaeology. Now he is awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship. The scholarship...
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Maarten Aalbers participated at the Polish Academic Fora on Competition LawOn 10 October 2018 Maarten Aalbers presented his PhD chapter on the application of state aid law to the professional sports sector at the 8th Internat...
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Maarten Aalbers presented at the ESTAL Conference “State aid control: where law and economics meet”
On 6 October 2018 Maarten Aalbers presented the first findings of a research paper, he is currently co - writing with Dr. Ben Van Rompuy, at the Vrije...
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Adriaan van der Weel about E-READ in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungResearchers from more than 30 countries have been discussing the changes in reading through digitization in the European research network E-READ. Adri...
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Burial mound research in National Geographic HistoriaQuentin Bourgeois and Luc Amrkeutz were interviewed for an National Geographic Historia article about the burial mound research in the Veluwe.
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How can we make Leiden a really 'healthy university'?At the initiative of several of its professors, Leiden University has joined the international Healthy Universities network. Surrounded by space hoppe...
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Review of 2017 Leiden Experimental Archaeology conferenceThe 10th Experimental Archaeology Conference of EXARC took place in Leiden, Netherlands, over three days; 20th to the 22nd April 2017, in Leiden Unive...
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Archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to wild food experimentWhat did our distant ancestors eat and how did they prepare their food? For the length of a month, experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subject...