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New book by Timo Slootweg, Tragedy in Ethics and Law: Other Voices of Dionysus04 September 2025In a world where law and morality strive for clarity, order, and control, this book challenges us to confront what has long been forgotten: the tragic...
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Two Leiden teams granted precious research time on ALMA telescopeastronomy 04 September 2025Leiden Observatory has achieved a rare feat: two of its research teams have been awarded prestigious ALMA Large Programmes, allowing them to study how...
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa ProfessorCleveringa Lecture 04 September 2025The French political theorist Hélène Landemore, known for her critical perspective on modern democracies, has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Pro...
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Leiden University to study the rise and persistence of income inequalityResearch project 04 September 2025Income inequality in the Netherlands is an upward trend. Leiden University will examine the causes behind this increasing inequality and why income in...
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brainBrain research 03 September 2025Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are n...
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100 Years of Spin and Lorentz Medal Award CeremonyPHYSICS 03 September 2025In 1925, two young physicists from Leiden University, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit, proposed a radical idea: spin. Their bold hypothesis quick...
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Two young researchers win Krijn Rietveld Award for innovative research on blood donation and colorectal cancerKrijn Rietveld Award 03 September 2025One used 3D cell models to study colorectal cancer, while the other used machine learning for more efficient blood donation. For these achievements, M...
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant02 September 2025Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...
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Big tech hard to keep up with: ‘Time for government action’Interview Alex Ingrams 01 September 2025From closed government systems in the Middle East to an exceptionally open Dutch government. Public administration lecturer Alex Ingrams is an expert ...
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Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you'Ceremony 01 September 2025The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge the...
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Leiden joins EU effort to unite Europe’s cancer research networks01 September 2025The more data from cancer research we pool, the better we can search for new treatments. But how can we keep patient data safe when sharing it? Leiden...
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‘It’s quite something to be on that list of names’Gold medal for Koper 28 August 2025Marc Koper, Professor of Catalysis and surface chemistry, has been awarded the EuChemS Gold Medal 2026. The prize is awarded every two years and recog...
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contextsPolitical Theorist Tom Theuns’ new collaborative monograph The Sciences of the Democracies 26 August 2025A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of ...
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First ring-forming embedded planet discovered around a young sun-like star26 August 2025Astronomers led by Leiden PhD candidate Richelle van Capelleveen have, for the first time, discovered an exoplanet that has carved a bright gap in the...
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Katharina Natter receives IMR Book Review Award26 August 2025Katharina Natter of the Institute of Political Science has been awarded the 2025 IMR Book Review Award for her book on migration politics in Morocco a...