News
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Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better' 16 May 2018
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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Social Science Matters: The stressed society 16 May 2018
Stress, 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 victims 04 May 2018
Herta 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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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance 26 April 2018
Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Campaign platform connects researchers with sponsors 19 April 2018
Want to sponsor scientific research by raising funds? You can now do just that via Leiden University's campaign platform acties.steunleiden.nl. A broa...
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The dilemmas of thirty-somethings: What on earth are you supposed to do? 19 April 2018
Your own food truck, working from the comforts of a tropical beach in Bali, or a permanent job? Children, living together, getting married, a registe...
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Mentor Gonny Hauwert: ‘Your first job doesn’t have to be an instant hit!' 28 March 2018
Mathematician Gonny Hauwert (33) is one of the mentors in the Leiden University Mentor Network. Through multiple jobs she found out what she really en...
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Alumni Meetup in London 26 March 2018
Sunday, March 25th, the LUC alumni network organised a meet up in London for the large group of alumni living, working and studying there. Special gue...
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Two Leiden Law School Alumni Awarded Second Prize of Wells-HeinOnline-Frontiers of Law in China Paper Competition 20 March 2018
Dr. Jingshu Zhu, a former PhD student at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, and Ms. Qiaozi Guanglin, alumna from Leiden Law School’s ...
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Bachelor and Master Speckmann Awards 2018 20 March 2018
Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden were granted the Bachelor Speckmann Award for their report ‘Community of H...
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Rutte in Leiden: ‘Only studying is such a waste of opportunity’ 15 March 2018
From political confessions to life lessons from his own student time. On 14 March, Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave candid answers to questions from Lei...
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Graduation in sight? Get some career tips from the Mentor Network 14 March 2018
As you near the end of your student time, it can be daunting thinking about what you want to do after graduating. Am I ready for the job market? What ...
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How Romana became a trainee at the Dutch Embassy in Amman 08 March 2018
Romana Osman (24) knew one thing for sure: she wanted to work at an embassy in the Middle East. However, finding a position turned out to be rather ch...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students 06 March 2018
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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Cultural Anthropology alumna in ‘The Newsletter’, IIAS 01 March 2018
Tarini J. Shipurkar was the winner of the 2016 IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize in Asian Studies. She wrote her thesis, entitled ‘Gender on Campus:...