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Graduation Ceremony Crisis and Security Management (MSc)On 9 April 2019 the graduation ceremony of the master Crisis and Security Management (MSc) took place. Three graduates were asked how they felt now, w...
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Xi’an Jiaotong University Day at Leiden University16 April was a special day at the Faculty of Science. In honour of the collaborations with the Chinese partner university, it was declared Xi’an Jiaot...
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The Hague wants three thousand extra rooms for studentsThe municipality of The Hague wants to build 3000 additional student residences by 2026 because of the shortage of rooms. The plan is an addition on t...
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LUF Grant for Natalia Donner for archaeological research at Darien GapArchaeologist Natalia Donner has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from the Bakels Fonds for her research Bridging the Gap: a historical ecological appro...
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Daily grind: the biography of a stone axeTom Breukel analysed some 250 stone axes from the Caribbean and reconstructed their biographies. This increases our knowledge of production and trade ...
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Elisa Meijer: ‘I grew up under the drawing board’Architect Elisa Meijer is the face of the Humanities Campus. She knows all the buildings, from the Reuvensplaats to the Matthias de Vrieshof, like the...
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Anxiety traits are visible in the brainQuestionnaires or concentration tasks can be used to screen for anxiety, but so too can EEG recordings – at least indirectly. The frequent mind wander...
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Achievement of compensation objectives in EU competition law demands US measuresVictims who claim damages from large corporations for the harm caused by an infringement of competition law are often powerless in the European Union....
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Experience one hundred years of astronomy at the Old ObservatoryHow big is the universe? How do stars form and evolve? And does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? These main questions in astronomy are the themes...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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The relationship between LGBT inclusion and economic development: Macro-level evidence’,
The relationship between LGBT inclusion and economic development: Macro-level evidence
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Looking back on the outstanding book presentation from Leandro MancanoLast Thursday, the April edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars took place. This well visited seminar took on a slightly different format, since we had the...
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Results research assessment LUCAS
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society looks back on a successful research assessment of the institute which took place in the fall of 2...
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International team of Leiden University wins award for best written memorial at Children's Rights Moot Court 2019We are proud of Chelsea Schuin, Xin Jiang, Siksanee Phollarpthawee and Lucy Opoka for their outstanding research and writing performance in the Childr...
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Residents and researchers explore plastics and psychology in the cityThis year will see the start of not one but two citizen science projects in Leiden and The Hague. This is the outcome of a large survey among residen...