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‘Just because something is technically possible doesn’t mean we should do it’Inaugural lecture 18 June 2026In a world where medical advances are progressing rapidly, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ben Cohlen argues that these must always go hand in...
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Prof. Stephen Russell meets with the CareCentury Team to discuss “Maternal Care in the Ancient Near East”18 June 2026Recently, Prof. Stephen Russell (John Jay College, City College New York), a historian of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East gave a special se...
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Archaeology alumni awarded prestigious Shelby White and Leon Levy GrantArchaeology of West Asia 18 June 2026The Faculty of Archaeology is pleased to announce that alumni Dr Diederik J. H. Halbertsma (NINO, Leiden University) and Dr Michel de Vreeze (Durham U...
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Alumna Melita van der Mersch: ‘Health law is extremely dynamic’Alumni interview 17 June 2026Melita van der Mersch recently received a ‘Gouden Peer’ award for health law from ‘Mr. Online’. The seed for her interest in this field of law was pla...
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Julia Röhrig wins Daniël Heinsius prize for master’s thesis about states’ responses to EctHR rulings17 June 2026Julia Röhrig, a graduate from Universiteit Leiden’s Political Science master’s programme, has won the 2026 Daniel Heinsius Prize of the Flemish and Du...
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European ban on cigarette filters more promising than national measureResearch 17 June 2026Plastic cigarette filters are a major source of litter and microplastics pollution. Legal experts from Leiden University, commissioned by a Dutch mini...
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Order in chaos: mathematician looks for patterns in unpredictable systemsmathematics 16 June 2026What do chemical reactions, epidemics and vegetation have in common? More than you might think, says mathematician Mark van den Bosch (Leiden Universi...
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How do you prepare for the threats of tomorrow?16 June 2026As geopolitical tensions rise and the international landscape becomes increasingly volatile, the Netherlands faces a growing range of threats, from cy...
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Leiden highlights strong life sciences position to European CommissionerLeiden Bio Science Park 15 June 2026European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva (Startups, Research and Innovation) visited the Leiden Bio Science Park on 12 June to see how the Leiden lif...
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Plans to limit the right to protest go beyond recommendationsInterview 15 June 2026The Dutch government wants to tighten the law on the right to protest on certain points. Laura Hanrath, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Constitut...
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From dystopia to forgery: Kiem grants make innovative interdisciplinary research possible15 June 2026At a celebratory event, 26 projects received a €10,000 Kiem grant for 2026-2027. No fewer than 108 interfaculty teams from Leiden University submitted...
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Kathleen Brown awarded Dutch-Flemish thesis prize15 June 2026The 2026 Els Witte Annual Prize in Political Science has been awarded to Kathleen Brown. As a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Politi...
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Ancient DNA reveals lost genetic diversity in fallow deerEuropean prehistory 15 June 2026An international team of researchers, including emeritus professor Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology, has uncovered evidence...
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Bakels Fund Grant for research into landscape use on MallorcaMallorca through time 15 June 2026Letty ten Harkel has received a Bakels Fund grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF) for a two-year research programme at the archaeological site o...
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Anthropology graduate launches collaborative culture magazinealumni 15 June 2026Cultural Anthropology students in Leiden are encouraged to think creatively and explore different ways of sharing knowledge, such as by producing zine...