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New research to get young people back into reading for pleasure30 October 2024Young people are more likely to find long texts unappealing to read, particularly with all the digital distractions. To improve young people’s reading...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so)24 October 2024Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbrea...
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President Korea Foundation op bezoek24 October 2024On Friday morning, 18 October, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and Professor Remco Breuker welcomed Korea Foundation President Gheewan Kim.
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ICC President visits Leiden University: ‘We must work together to fight crime’23 October 2024The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny when it comes to prosecuting international crimes. This due to increasing conflicts w...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Next quantum computer comes to the Netherlands22 October 2024Europe's latest quantum computer is set to arrive in the Netherlands. The Dutch IT cooperative, SURF, which supports education and research institutio...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Opinion: The message 'ready for the fight' in the Defence White Paper raises concerns.21 October 2024‘Strong, smart and together’ is the name of the recently published Defence White Paper, which is being debated in the House of Representatives along w...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy17 October 2024Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis17 October 2024At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, b...
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Social Science Matters: Internationalization15 October 2024International education in the Netherlands is under pressure. There is pressure on the student housing market, and there is a greater desire among rig...
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Global Governance Journal comes to Leiden University14 October 2024A Leiden-based team of researchers has taken over the editorship of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organ...
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A cocktail of chemicals in surface water is more toxic than each substance individually14 October 2024Pesticides can form a toxic cocktail when they occur in combination in surface water. This is the finding of research that Leiden University and the D...