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LUF grant to take the war out of children01 July 2021Sandy Overgaauw has been awarded a 25,000 euro grant from the LUF for her research into PTSD in Syrian refugee children in the Netherlands. The resear...
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Mark Rutte presented with book about the human dimension29 June 2021The human dimension must be brought back to the fore, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in response to the child benefits scandal. But how? A group of re...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles29 June 2021After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...
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Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles28 June 2021In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and co...
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Théo Pavlović granted with Master's Speckmann Award 202123 June 2021Alumnus Théo Pavlović received the Masters Speckmann award for his thesis: PAN RECORDS - A digital journey through the ethnic music niche that was sup...
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Alumnus Robert Ietswaart: ‘Machine learning is revolutionising drug discovery’15 June 2021Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whethe...
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LISF committee investigates gender bias14 June 2021The LUF International Study Fund (LISF) will make changes to its allocation process following an investigation into diversity in its grants policy. Th...
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections10 June 2021Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens ...
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Call for Participation online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures07 June 2021Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic i...
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How a region's contradictions shaped Boris Kowalski's career25 May 2021Sometimes student life merges rather smoothly into a working adult life. This is the case for Boris Kowalski. At International Studies, he chose Russi...
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Aisha Hassan’s lifelong fascination for developing countries25 May 2021Aisha Hassan came to the Netherlands when she was two months old. Her mother had fled Somalia and made a new home here. Aisha doesn't remember much ab...
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Mattias Brand awarded Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 202120 May 2021
Mattias Brand’s dissertation, The Manichaeans of Kellis: Religion, Community, and Everyday Life (Leiden, 2019) has been selected for one of the five p...
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‘We teach in the FC Emmen canteen’20 May 2021Alumna Louwien Eising is headteacher of Carmel College in Emmen. How have things been during the pandemic? And how has her degree in Education and Chi...
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Three under-30s19 May 2021Elsevier Weekblad has chosen 30 Dutch talents under the age of 30. They include Leiden alumni Mátyás Bittenbinder (biology), Hielke Onnink, (Public Se...
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CADS Alumna writes children's book that encourages diversity and inclusiveness among children and their parents18 May 2021When Cultural Anthropology alumna Monique Tekstra-van Lochem was having children and she wanted to teach them more about diverse cultures, she was una...