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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...
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Alumnus Rennie Roos: ‘My work has more impact in Indonesia’17 May 2021While studying Indonesian languages and cultures, Rennie Roos started a company. Today he has been working in Indonesia for more than eight years. Whe...
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Questions to an alumnus episode 1: Christina Azzarello12 May 2021Questions to a European and International Human Rights Law alumnus episode 1: Christina Azzarello.
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Ruth van Vugt: different ways of getting to a job as a clinical psychologist11 May 2021Most students of Psychology want to work in mental healthcare (GGZ). This makes the master’s specialisation in Clinical Psychology a logical choice. I...
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The hunt for the best computer language10 May 2021Our language is adapted to the context in which we humans communicate. But computers ‘think’ differently. What is the optimal form of a language for h...