News
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New digital music label Strange Strings 17 November 2020
Richard Barrett has launched a new digital music label on Bandcamp.
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Liesbeth de Lange wins Lewis B. Sheiner Career Prize 13 November 2020
Pharmacologist Liesbeth de Lange has won the Lewis B. Sheiner Lecturer Award from the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). As Professor of...
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Blog post: The nose of this wormy-shaped bacterium has a surprising symmetry 13 November 2020
For the first time ever, Leiden biologists have found that the ‘nose’ of spirochetes – worm-shaped bacteria – have a two-fold symmetry. A remarkable d...
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Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize. 13 November 2020
The winner of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize 2020 is Koen Bastiaans. He carried out his PhD research in the group of Milan Allan an...
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Student with coronavirus: ‘My lecturer helped me a lot’ 11 November 2020
Two months ago, history student Willemijn contracted coronavirus. At the time she was taking a course given by lecturer Rens Tacoma. What can you do i...
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Vidi research grant for physicist Daniela Kraft 04 November 2020
The image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft's research group has quite a ...
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End-of-life care research: the need for cultural sensitivity in globalizing palliative care 02 November 2020
How does palliative care develop within various cultural settings? How do local, non-institutional ideas about end-of-life care influence professional...
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Maartje van der Woude will give Dies Natalis lecture for Universitas Indonesia 30 October 2020
Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law & Society, will hold a lecture on 5 November for Universitas Indonesia on the occasion of its 96th Dies Natalis.
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Anne Meuwese appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI 27 October 2020
Anne Meuwese is appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI at Leiden University as of 1 November 2020. This position is part of the Universi...
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica writes youth novel about Rwanda 26 October 2020
Writing a story from the perspective of a Rwandan girl set in Africa is not an easy task. Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica did it. Her debut no...
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Peter Burger: 'I investigate where a strange story comes from.' 26 October 2020
Peter Burger is a university lecturer at the master in Journalism and New Media and co-founder of Nieuwscheckers. He now teaches the course Factchecke...
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Global citizenship research launched in cooperation with NCDO 22 October 2020
At the initiative of the National Commission for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), Leiden University has commenced researc...
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Steven Truxal appointed Professor of Air and Space Law in Leiden 22 October 2020
Steven Truxal joins Leiden University as Professor of Air and Space Law on 1 December 2020. Truxal holds a BA in International Affairs with concentrat...
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‘Surgeons and rowers have a lot in common’ 19 October 2020
Rower Boudewijn Röell (31) already has one Olympic medal, but he's hoping to win another in Tokyo. 'At some point, though, you do have to stop.' Easi...
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Alumna Fleur van Elk about studying and working 19 October 2020
Alumna Fleur van Elk graduated cum laude for the research master's program Cognitive Neuroscience and started her PhD trajectory at the Erasmus Univer...