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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and...
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Protecting children is what inspires Cleveringa professor Dettmeijer-VermeulenCorinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, the well-known legal expert and Leiden University alumna, was for many years the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in H...
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Volvo Ocean Race winner Carolijn Brouwer has sailing in her bloodCarolijn Brouwer and ambitious are synonymous. That has got her a long way. She was the first woman to be part of the winning team of the Volvo Ocean ...
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First BAIS Alumni Reunion Memorable Success!On a sunny Saturday on June 9th, the first Alumni Reunion of the BA International Studies took place in The Hague. Organised in Café Schlemmers, a st...
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Young alumni take a look behind the scenes at the National MuseumThe Young Alumni Network (YAN) organised a working visit to the National Museum in Amsterdam on Thursday 5 July. Alumni were able to take a look behin...
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Join the Leiden Science Run and help refugee studentsDo you like running or helping charity? Then join the Leiden Science Run on 29 September! Form a team together with, for example, your old study mates...
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‘The depletion of the Earth’s resources is coming closer every year’A packaging-free shop, small mobile homes, solar panels on all Leiden's roofs… Jeroen Schrama, alumnus of Public Administration, is a creative world i...
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Leiden University Fund awards grantsOver thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad'Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compell...
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...
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Non-standard career path: from studying Japanese to making offices greenerThe Linked In profile of alumnus Arne Driessen describes him as a ‘serial entrepreneur’. After studying Japanese he ended up working for a translation...
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Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better'Enya Seguin is an idealist. This 22-year-old alumna of Leiden University College in The Hague wants to make it possible for patients in Africa to have...
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Pieters Corner: The stressed societyStress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...
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The story behind the war victimsHerta Mohr was a promising Egyptologist who died in Bergen-Belsen. Lawyer Amandus Wolfsbergen died in Auschwitz, without knowing that the his work wou...
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Campaign platform connects researchers with sponsorsWant to sponsor scientific research by raising funds? You can now do just that via Leiden University's campaign platform acties.steunleiden.nl. A broa...