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Koos Biesmeijer and Claire van Megen nominated for Person of the Year09 January 2024Koos Biesmeijer, Professor of Natural Capital, and Claire van Megen, an Educational and Child Studies student, are in with a chance of winning Leiden’...
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Reliable research with virtual patients09 January 2024The right medicine in the right dosage for every patient, that is something medical science aspires. 'Personalised medicine' is the term for that. But...
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Video: Why more women have ADHD than you think21 December 2023When we think of ADHD, we often think of highly creative, hyperactive boys rushing around and bouncing off the walls with a seemingly endless supply o...
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news20 December 2023So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also ...
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Together the universities from Leiden and Paramaribo tackle ecological and social challenges20 December 2023Research on flora and fauna with attention for economic interests and partnership with the local population. This is all bundled in a cooperation prog...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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From studying international law to touring with your own theatre show19 December 2023Graduating in international law and fulfilling a childhood dream by performing your own theatre show. Alumna Fleur Verhoeff has achieved both. How did...
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Dutch Research Council Open Science Fund grants for five Leiden projects18 December 2023Five projects with a lead applicant from Leiden will receive an Open Science Fund grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The applications come f...
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan18 December 2023Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known...
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 202318 December 2023The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our...
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Leiden University 14th in global sustainability ranking18 December 2023Leiden University has taken 14th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Over 1,000 universities from all arou...
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Artwork in the new Gorlaeus Building: ‘Academics and artists have more in common than we think’14 December 2023Leiden artist Jos Agasi gets to create the artwork for the atrium of the new Gorlaeus Building. His work was chosen from several entries and will be a...
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UN Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’14 December 2023Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta to study transnational Islamic charitable networks13 December 2023Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangle...
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty13 December 20232023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this...