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Hard chews: why mastication played a crucial role in evolution 17 August 2022We do it every day but barely give it a thought: chewing our food. But the ‘simple’ process of masticating food may have played a crucial role in the ...
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Judi Mesman on leaving LUC: ‘It’s been a wild ride’ 17 August 2022A moment of reminiscence and to see what lies ahead. After having been Dean of Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) for six years, Judi Mesman ta...
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EUniWell Summer School on the impact of covid on health and well-being 16 August 2022Bachelor's and master's students and PhD candidates came together from 10 to 13 July at Campus The Hague for the EUniWell Summer School ‘COVID-19: Imp...
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Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit 16 August 2022When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden...
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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID 15 August 2022Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance thi...
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Joni Reef: 'We’re prisoners of our own perspective' 15 August 2022One perspective, one cell, one outlook on life: what are we all prisoners of? That’s the question Vrij Nederland put to various experts, including Jon...
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Advanced Masters students present their research in China 15 August 2022Two of eLaw’s Advanced Masters students, Dimitra Laskari and Vasilis Xynoglas, presented their research on the Metaverse and Personal Digital Twins at...
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Lifelong learning as the answer to huge labour shortage 15 August 2022Cancelled trains, massive queues at Schiphol Airport, nursery closures and long waiting times for health care. These are all the results of labour sho...
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Honours Class reconciles students with the unpredictability of life 15 August 2022The course Designing Your Life helps students navigate their career pathways. As it turns out, these pathways are full of twists and turns and - as wi...
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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ 11 August 2022Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral res...
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Dutch cabinet forces municipalities to receive asylum seekers 11 August 2022The shortage of reception places has become so great that the Dutch cabinet decided this week to take the lead in designating reception places itself....
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects 11 August 2022The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and fo...
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Mentor network for students and researchers affected by war in Ukraine: 'These are our colleagues' 11 August 2022When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, normal life there came to a halt. To ensure that affected students and researchers can continue th...
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Bart Schermer: ‘Threats via internet also liable to punishment’ 11 August 2022Austria wants to crack down on online threats and hatred. The reason is the death of GP Lisa-Maria Kellermayr. She committed suicide at the end of Jul...
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Too few work-related accidents reported to Netherlands Labour Authority 10 August 2022Many employers are unaware that work-related accidents must be reported immediately to the Netherlands Labour Authority (NLA) and therefore they negle...