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Alumna Aileen Ye on the Blue Nile projectAileen Ye graduated from the BA International Studies in 2019 and is a board member of the Leiden University Green Office (LUGO). She also works on Bl...
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How Leiden researchers are going to fight Gaucher's disease with a start-upIt has kept Leiden professor Hans Aerts busy throughout his academic career: Gaucher's disease, a hereditary metabolic disease. Together with professo...
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Share your talent with the Live Lunch FridayThe Faculty of Humanities is looking for creative students who would like to share their talent for their Live Lunch Friday.
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Postponed- Making a Laboratory: What Method for Erotohistoriography?
Unfortunately we have to postpone the workshop with Ben Spatz due to the Corona-virus.
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Summer School for Historical Acting cancelledWe have decided to cancel the Summer School for Historical Acting due to the ongoing global public health crisis.
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Armchair travel to the Falkland IslandsYliana Rodríguez was in the middle of a second fieldtrip in the Falklands researching Spanish-English language contact, when global lockdown measures ...
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Help track coronavirus with the LUMC’s COVID Radar appLeiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has just launched its COVID Radar app. Users of the app are asked to regularly complete a short questionnaire ...
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Online portal consolidates ‘social’ knowledge about coronavirusUnderstandably, coronavirus is often viewed from a medical perspective. However, researchers in the social sciences and humanities possess a great dea...
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How Stone Age Humans Unlocked the Glucose in PlantsEarly cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants were just as key to ...
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Arthur Ram receives NWO grant to improve enzyme factoryThis year, microbiologist Arthur Ram will start new research on producing useful enzymes in bulk. Ram receives an NWO grant for this project that will...
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NETWORKS consortium receives COFUND grant from European CommissionThe Gravitation programme NETWORKS has been awarded a COFUND grant of 3 million euros. Half of this comes from the European Commission's Marie Skłodow...
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Programming resembles learning a languageWhat languages do you speak? According to Felienne Hermans, ‘Phyton’ could be an answer to this question. Hermans studies how people learn to program ...
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Are people willing to share risks together within a financial market?Economic anthropologist Erik Bähre does research on the morality of insurance. In his latest ethnography ‘Ironies of Solidarity’ Bähre explores how th...
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Sneak peek of exhibition Frank Scholten: Archeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Land’The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) was due to open its doors to the small photography exhibit Frank Scholten: Archaeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Lan...
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. T...