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Marlies Reinders new Dean of Faculty of Medicine and member of LUMC Board of Directors21 June 2024As of 1 October, Marlies Reinders (1973) will be the new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and will sit on the LUMC’s Board of Directors. This will retu...
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'20 June 2024After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongren to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speec...
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’20 June 2024How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly ...
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Postgraduate training helps lecturers develop19 June 2024Jamie Korporaal, who started as a junior lecturer at Leiden Law School during her master's studies and has now joined the faculty as a lecturer, will ...
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Ambassadors visit Leiden: ‘Knowledge knows no borders’19 June 2024Over 30 ambassadors strengthened their ties with researchers and university leaders in a recent visit to Leiden University. Cross-border collaboration...
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Important collection of topographical images of the Netherlands available in Digital Collections18 June 2024Castles, monasteries and bridges, but also city profiles, history prints and water management works. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) manages one of ...
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Academic freedom report: ‘This jewel in our crown deserves better care’18 June 2024What does academic freedom mean? And how do we give shape to it in Leiden? The Academic Freedom Core Team considered these questions and presented its...
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Bridging science, society and self: what honours education can look like17 June 2024How can I align science, society and myself to address today’s major challenges? That’s what students of the Honours College track ‘Science, Society a...
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Leiden University fifth in SustainaBul sustainability ranking17 June 2024Leiden University has secured fifth place in SustainaBul, the sustainability ranking for universities and universities of applied sciences in the Neth...
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Opinion: Renaming ministries plays crucial role in shaping political agenda14 June 2024Three new ministries have been formed in the Netherlands: Asylum and Migration, Housing and Spatial Planning & Climate and Green Growth. Of course, th...
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Launch of The Hague Global Futures Hub: Innovation and Collaboration for a Sustainable Future13 June 2024The Hague Global Futures Hub was officially launched at the Wijnhaven building on Campus The Hague on 10 June. This collaboration between Leiden Unive...
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling13 June 2024The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Er...
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Ionica Smeets receives honorary doctorate from Open University13 June 2024Professor of Science Communication Ionica Smeets will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University. She receives the award because she exem...
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Jesse Dijkshoorn: ‘I had to learn to take time off’11 June 2024Research master's student in history Jesse Dijkshoorn collaborated on a transcription system for medieval texts. ‘It’s nice to make the Middle Ages ac...
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A fulltime job and a ten for your master’s thesis: ‘I thought they were joking’11 June 2024After working full-time for twenty-four years, Wendy Tonks decided to enrol in the executive master's in Cyber Security. She now proudly reflects on h...