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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard' 08 December 2022
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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Psychology Connected on why we fight, and how to find peace again 06 December 2022
After discussing the climate, our psychologists once again broach a big topic: war and peace. Or, perhaps: cooperation and conflict. For no matter how...
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First Lustrum for PhD Workshop on European/International Insolvency Law 06 December 2022
From Wednesday-Thursday 19-20 April 2023 the Stichting Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection (BWILC) invites PhD students from Europe and beyond to pa...
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HC Law students receive certificate at awards ceremony 06 December 2022
After three years of hard work, the students of the Honours College Law received their certificates on 22 November at an awards ceremony held at Schel...
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Multiple KHMW awards for science students 05 December 2022
As many as seven first-year students from the Faculty of Science were honoured as young talents. In addition, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences an...
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Lifelong Learning and Development: University launches Academy for Professionals project 01 December 2022
The Academy for Professionals project started in November. The project will focus on further developing existing and new educational programmes for pr...
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Orange the World: Visible and invisible violence against women 01 December 2022
On 25 November, the global 16-day campaign 'Orange the World' against violence against women and girls started. Leiden University will also be paying ...
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Alexander van Oudenhoven: 'Governance of Sustainability is something I would have wanted to study myself' 01 December 2022
Alexander van Oudenhoven is the brand-new education director of the master's in Governance of Sustainability. The study has already entered its fourth...
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Biology student Martijn Verkuilen wins Unilever Research Prize 29 November 2022
Martijn Verkuilen is the winner of the Unilever Research Prize 2022. By transferring DNA from a plant into yeast, he made the first move to produce a ...
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Documentaries, zines and a video installation: multimedia projects by students Visual Ethnography 28 November 2022
From documentaries, zines and exhibitions to a video installation. Students of the Visual Ethnography master's programme pulled out all the stops to f...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places' 25 November 2022
With his essay 'Why science?', mathematics prodigy Lars Pos (18) won the Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize. Within the theme 'The fascinating workings of ...
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Leiden University College The Hague: 'Top rated Programme' since 2013 24 November 2022
Leiden University College The Hague received the 'Top rated Programme' seal from the Keuzegids Universiteiten 2023 (Dutch University Guide). It is the...
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities 24 November 2022
Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Lan...
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Children become bacteria to learn about antibiotics 21 November 2022
Last Friday the global Antibiotics Awareness Week begun: an entire week dedicated to antibiotic use. Antibiotics researchers from the LACDR therefore ...
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What do complex molecules tell us about star formation? 21 November 2022
How do you progress from an immense gas cloud somewhere in the universe to a star with planets? Research by Astronomy PhD student Martijn van Gelder s...