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Designing and building a sound sculpture with 3D printed parts01 December 2025In the Digital Humanities Lab, students and staff can make use of various technical facilities. PhD student Caeso tells us more about his experiences ...
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Five Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projectsGrant awarded 01 December 2025Five consortia within the Perspectief programme that include Leiden researchers have received funding to start their research projects. These projects...
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Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?Social Sciences Connect 01 December 2025Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the world. Over the next five yea...
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Vasiliki Kosta speaks at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Germany01 December 2025Vasiliki Kosta acted as a speaker during the Dutch-German Science Days held on 26 and 27 November 2025, on the overarching theme ‘Academia in times of...
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LUC The Hague once again recognised as a national top programme28 November 2025Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges at Leiden University College The Hague has once again been awarded the coveted Top programme label. This ...
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Princeton fellowship for LUC historian Jacqueline HylkemaNews 28 November 2025Jacqueline Hylkema, a cultural historian at LUC, will be appointed at Princeton University from January to June 2026. There, she will conduct research...
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Vidi grants for research on sexual intimacy using robots and the life-course impact of criminal sanctions27 November 2025Two colleagues have each received a prestigious Vidi grant. We spoke to criminologist and Associate Professor Hilde Wermink, and Eduard Fosch Villaron...
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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity27 November 2025What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the ans...
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Carbon footprint of global steel production remains high: ‘Capturing CO₂ won’t solve it’SUSTAINABILITY 27 November 2025Steel production is likely to take up a large portion of our future carbon budget. Capturing CO₂ from coal-based production won’t solve the problem. T...
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NWO grant for novel plant-derived pest-control strategies (without side effects for humans and wildlife)GRANT AWARDED 27 November 2025Maurijn van der Zee searches for insecticides that protect crops without harming wildlife or leaving residues in our food. His GREENSHIELD project rec...
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‘To truly understand the brain, we must understand the chemistry’PhD defence 27 November 2025How do fats and enzymes in the brain contribute to multiple sclerosis? In his PhD research, Daan van der Vliet combined chemistry and neuroscience to ...
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The Digital Omnibus is a risk for our digital rights26 November 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, was interviewed by EUobserver and Al Jazeera English on the European Commission...
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Care and social-work professionals need to collaborate better – and reflect morePromotion 26 November 2025Many people in the Netherlands experience physical, psychological and social problems at the same time. They therefore rely on support from multiple p...
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A peek inside the life of extremist families26 November 2025PhD candidate Layla van Wieringen examined how extremist beliefs are passed on within households. In her dissertation ‘Rotten Trees, Bad Apples? Under...