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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture 23 February 2023
Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March. This year’s lecture will be g...
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Faculty of Archaeology features in Archeologie Magazine Special 23 February 2023
The Faculty of Archaeology is proud to present the special edition in honor of our 25th anniversary. In 15 pages, the Dutch-language special gives an ...
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Late physics professor from Leiden frontrunner on inclusion and diversity 23 February 2023
For years, the late professor Marten Durieux personally mentored and funded students from Sudan to study physics in the Netherlands. Colleague Sense J...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes 23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students. ‘Democracy will always be stronger than tyranny’ 22 February 2023
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students in the Cleveringa ...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Demy Jongkind holds webinar on grant tables 21 February 2023
On Thursday 16 February, Demi Jongkind, PhD candidate at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law, held a webinar discussing her resear...
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Is there oxygen on exoplanets? New telescope finds out 20 February 2023
To what extent does exoplanet Proxima b resemble our Earth? And is there some form of life present? Astronomers hope to find answers to these question...
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A future based on Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability, rather than economic growth 20 February 2023
How can society let go of its obsession with economic growth and focus on goals as wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability? This is one of the core qu...
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Data analysis of dark web forums in the fight against child sexual abuse 20 February 2023
By far the majority of users of child sexual abuse networks (or child porn forums as they are sometimes called) on the dark web do not actively commun...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities 20 February 2023
Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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Collection of anatomical drawings available in Europeana 16 February 2023
Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows me...
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The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic visits the Faculty of Archaeology 16 February 2023
Monday 6 February the Faculty of Archaeology had the honour to receive the e Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Dr. Juan Bautista Durán. The m...
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Better screening can help GPs recognise anxiety disorders earlier 15 February 2023
Only one in five young people with emotional health problems such as an anxiety disorder receives appropriate professional help. GPs often fail to pro...
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Valentina Carraro offers recommendations on strengthening the UN system 14 February 2023
At an international high-level conference, Valentina Carraro, Deputy Coordinator of the interdisciplinary programme Global Transformations and Governa...