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In memoriam: dr. Karin Willemse (1962-2023) 29 March 2023
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of our former colleague dr. Karin Willemse, who passed away on Saturday 18 March 2023.
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides 29 March 2023The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This...
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Speckmann Awards 2023 for Queer Joy in Motion report and Imogen Cooney 28 March 2023The Fieldwork NL report prize goes to the “Queer Joy in Motion” report, by bachelor students Dorota Olšavská, Marthe Baalbergen, Rielly Puchalski, and...
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‘Fundamentals’ inspire students to get started on real-life sustainability challenges 28 March 2023In the near future, students of the LDE Bachelor Honours Programme Sustainability will take on real-life sustainability challenges. But first, the cou...
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Researchers Tax Law participated in investigative journalism potential tax avoidance Cargill 28 March 2023Dutch newspaper Trouw investigated the tax position of multinational Cargill. Their conclusion? It is partially inexplicable. Trouw asked Jan van de S...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world 28 March 2023It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict? 28 March 2023Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can co...
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Executive Board column: Cybersecurity is our shared responsibility so what do we need to do? 28 March 2023Cyber threats are on the increase. This won’t have escaped anyone’s notice. Monitoring by our cybersecurity experts has shown that there are non-stop ...
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Charlotte Holt: 'This internship has allowed me to grow as a person, intellectually, and mentally’ 27 March 2023Charlotte Holt is a second year International Justice student at Leiden University College. She did an internship at Academia Neerlandesa; a language ...
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The spy elephant in the room. Inaugural lecture by Dennis Broeders on the tangled web of cyber espionage 27 March 2023Secret services are engaging in increasingly extreme forms of cyber espionage. But nobody talks about this. Dennis Broeders knows why and is trying to...
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Overstimulated? Artist pictures her brain with cacophony of colours 27 March 2023'With this artwork, I want to give the audience a glance into my overstimulated brain and that of other people with autism', says Jasmijn den Hoed. Th...
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Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology 27 March 2023‘Qasr Bshir is magnificent even in decline. It sits majestically in the landscape, master of all it surveys. On approaching the site, however, it is c...
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Geerten Boogaard not concerned about conflict of interests at BBB 27 March 2023The fact that a significant number of seats in the Dutch provincial councils are now occupied by members of the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBur...
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Leiden wins two prizes in Day of Crisis Competition 2023 27 March 2023Leiden University's team participated in the 2023 edition of the Day of Crisis Competition and emerged as Second Runners Up to the Best Team Award and...
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen woman do it their way 27 March 2023Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by ...