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Voice of the ocean 16 November 2023There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in t...
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Footballer and journalist Nikki IJzerman: 'I want to dive into the background of the news' 16 November 2023Give Nikki IJzerman a football and she’s happy. The midfielder was named Player of the Year by ADO Den Haag last season, as well as obtaining her mast...
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Ten questions for alumnus Dion Latten 15 November 2023Studying law and then working in sales … Dion Latten loves Leiden and he loves law, but what he loves most is working for BMW. Currently Legal Counsel...
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Alumnus Francis Farrell: 'I experienced some crazy moments on the front line' 14 November 2023Alumnus Francis Farrell (International Studies, 2018) works as a reporter at the Kyiv Independent, where he covers Russia's war against Ukraine. 'I ex...
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list 27 October 2023In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of...
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Alumnus Rennie Roos: ‘I want to work with Indonesia in the present day’ 18 October 2023Alumnus Rennie Roos lives and works in Indonesia. What took him there, what does he do there and what inspires him? ‘I want to give other people the o...
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LIFF programmer Nick Hortensius: 'It's great to share your taste with so many people' 17 October 2023Alumnus Nick Hortensius started volunteering at the Leiden International Film Festival (LIFF) in his student days. He has since grown with the festiva...
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From beer crate to briefcase 09 October 2023Exit life as a student, enter life as a lawyer. Fresh out of university in 2022, Rick Kuivenhoven started working at a law firm straight away. How is ...
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Alumna Anouk van Oss wants a sustainable fashion industry 19 September 2023Fashion is a common thread running through alumna Anouk van Oss’s life. From a young age, fashion was a way for her to express herself. That was until...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty 19 September 2023Our ever-increasing reliance on software and technologies, out of convenience, necessity or otherwise, binds us to supranational and commercial compan...
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Leiden Revisited 2023: 'The alumni event makes me feel part of this community again' 12 September 2023What does it mean to be an alumnus at Leiden Law School? Apart from a monthly magazine and a large network, the faculty also organises the annual alum...
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Graduation ceremony of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights 2022-2023 04 September 2023On Wednesday, 30 August 2023, the graduation ceremony took place in Leiden University’s Academy Building. The ceremony was a momentous occasion, atten...
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On the road with museum lover Jelte Liemburg: ‘I finally got to hold a mammoth tooth’ 20 July 2023Former student of history at Leiden Jelte Liemburg, aged 29, has set himself the unusual challenge of visiting every single one of the 500 museums in ...
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New treatments for life-threatening disease sepsis 12 July 2023Due to the increasing resistance to certain antibiotics, the life-threatening condition sepsis is becoming harder to treat. For her PhD project, Leide...
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From International Relations to combatting financial crime 10 July 2023Vivian Ng came back to Leiden last June to finally sign the walls of the Sweat Room. Graduated in 2020 during the pandemic, she missed out on this won...