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Student team iGEM Leiden wins gold in Boston 05 November 2018
The adventure of iGEM Leiden has come to an end. The result: prizes for Best Therapeutic Project and Best Model, a gold medal, a successful crowdfundi...
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Having doubts about your future? The Mentor Network can help! 15 October 2018
During your studies you have to make a lot of choices. And there are so many possibilities, you sometimes can’t see the wood for the trees. Where do I...
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Maartje van der Woude: 'VIVA400 nomination is acknowledgement and incentive' 12 October 2018
Each year Dutch women’s magazine VIVA draws up a list of creative and enterprising women. This year our alumna and Professor of Law and Society Maartj...
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Work and thrive in an international environment 04 October 2018
Three years after the very first cohort of the Leiden University Bachelor of International Studies graduated, approximately 40 alumni and staff got to...
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Students International Studies receive their diploma 31 August 2018
The students received their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden, in front of a large audience of family and friends. With more than 1,000 p...
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships 10 August 2018
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-Vermeulen 01 August 2018
Corinne 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 blood 17 July 2018
Carolijn 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! 13 July 2018
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 Museum 10 July 2018
The 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 students 19 June 2018
Do 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’ 14 June 2018
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 grants 12 June 2018
Over 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' 04 June 2018
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' 04 June 2018
The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...