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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’13 January 2022For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been...
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EIBL alumna Suzanne Kingston appointed judge of the General Court of the European Union11 January 2022Suzanne Kingston will be officially sworn in mid-January. She graduated from the Leiden Advanced LLM European and International Business Law (EIBL) in...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden10 January 2022The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...
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Six prospective members of the new cabinet studied in Leiden04 January 2022The Rutte IV cabinet will be sworn in soon. A fifth of the prospective ministers and secretaries of state studied in Leiden. Who are they and what did...
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From in-person lectures to a first-class degree: our year on social media21 December 2021Covid year 2021 might have felt somewhat less strange than the year before, but the virus still left its mark on University life and our students and ...
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The most read stories of 2021 from Leiden University19 December 2021Research into depression in children, Leiden alumni in the Dutch House of Representatives and an exceptional achievement by one of our students: what ...
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’17 December 2021Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it...
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Flash interview with alumnus and new Faculty Advisory Council member Yousef Yousef14 December 2021Yousef Yousef is a 'self-made man'. But he first obtained his bachelor's degree in tax law in Leiden. 'A CEO needs to have a basic understanding of th...
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Organisations and young alumni provide valuable career tips during Meet the Employer Week13 December 2021Career Services of the Faculties Governance and Global Affairs, Social Sciences, and Humanities joined forces to organise the ‘Meet the Employer’ Week...
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Katie Pentney wins Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2021 with master’s thesis13 December 2021The Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award is presented every two years on 10 December (Human Rights Day) in recognition of outstanding academic works i...
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Exceptional collection of maps and atlases donated to Leiden University Libraries09 December 2021Private collectors John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen from Dordrecht have donated their entire collection of maps, city plans and atlases to Leiden Univ...
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’06 December 2021Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long whil...
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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog22 November 2021The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Insp...
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project19 November 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundre...
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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’18 November 2021Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society acces...