News
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Why teens should treasure their friendships 21 March 2024
Adolescents with strong friendships experience fewer anxiety and depression symptoms, PhD student Iris Koele discovered in her research on high school...
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Developer of new Indonesian capital to work together with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus 21 March 2024
Nusantara Capital Authority (OIKN), which is in charge of developing Indonesia’s new capital city entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Leiden-De...
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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks 21 March 2024
The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students...
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New generation galaxy formation simulations on the horizon – Evgenii Chaikin received his doctorate with honours 21 March 2024
Simulations of galaxy formation provide much more information about galaxies than a telescope. Simulations have been improving significantly in recent...
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1 million to halt atherosclerosis progression 21 March 2024
Treating atherosclerosis with an anti-inflammatory drug. Amanda Foks receives €499.987,00 from the Dutch Heart Foundation to investigate this over the...
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide 21 March 2024
The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. Thi...
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The European Commission, “a humanities-friendly work environment” 20 March 2024
On February 29 2024, the Humanities Career Service of Leiden University organised a career day to the European Union institutions in Brussels. Natalia...
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Olga Ceran speaks at SCEUS Young Scholars Workshop on EU Studies 20 March 2024
Olga Ceran was one of the speakers at the SCEUS Young Scholars Workshop on EU studies on 14 and 15 March 2024 in Salzburg (Austria).
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Call for applications: Aspasia Travel Grant 20 March 2024
Travel grant call for applications open to people who were identified as female at birth or who identify as female at the time of application for exte...
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How to improve the workplace for bi+ people 20 March 2024
People who are attracted to more than one gender often experience a disadvantage in the workplace and labour market. BI+ Netherlands and Leiden Univer...
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Positive developments and challenges of local democracy and inclusive governance in Chile 19 March 2024
On 4 March 2024, the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) held a meeting of its Working Group on Local Democracy and Inclusive Governance, in which the...
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How genetic research contributes to effective lion conservation 19 March 2024
Human measures to protect lions have an impact on the genetic health of populations. Leiden and Kenyan scientists discovered this by analysing the DNA...
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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VvA meeting to focus on transnational labour law 19 March 2024
At the meeting of the Dutch Employment Law Association (Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht, VvA) on 12 March 2024, which Paul van der Heijden moderated as c...
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool 18 March 2024
How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education La...