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Working towards a healthier society: learn all about it in this new minor 08 April 2024
Why are health problems such as loneliness and obesity so persistent? What causes them to occur more frequently in some neighbourhoods than others? An...
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DNA analysis of historical mosquitoes will help us understand malaria transmission 05 April 2024
Researchers from Leiden University, McMaster University and Public Health Ontario are calling on colleagues to track down archival specimens of mosqui...
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Optimisation software 'Kernel Tuner' ready for serious use 05 April 2024
LIACS assistant professor Ben van Werkhoven leads the development of software for optimising graphics processing units. By now, version 1.0 of 'Kernel...
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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products 04 April 2024
More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent ...
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Preserving Syrian excavation data: ‘the documentation here in Leiden is the only thing that’s left’ 04 April 2024
The Faculty of Archaeology used to be involved in several excavations in Syria, before the outbreak of civil war made travel to the region impossible....
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Rens Pieterse writes biography of Professor Ferd Grapperhaus 03 April 2024
‘A tax crusader’... that’s how Ferd Grapperhaus, former Professor of Tax Law at Leiden University and father of the former Minister of Justice and Sec...
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Daniel Peat to represent the ISDS Academic Forum at Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform Discussions 03 April 2024
Daniel Peat will represent the ISDS Academic Forum, a group of over 150 academics whose research focusses on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS),...
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Autism and loneliness at school: ‘I always have to stifle my feelings’ 03 April 2024
Echoing corridors, chaotic lessons and the obligatory chit-chat in the playground: for pupils with autism, an average day at school is exhausting. As ...
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Student cleans up archival data and uncovers two stellar cocoons 03 April 2024
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master's student Sam de Regt discovered that two of t...
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How cells determine the fate of proteins (and can we do it too?) 02 April 2024
Cells in our bodies are often threatened by errors in our own proteins. The FLOW consortium, comprising scientists from various institutions including...
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Antwerp Honorary Doctorate for Marc Koper: Significant recognition for sustainable energy research 02 April 2024
A festive and honourable visit to our southern neighbours for professor Marc Koper. On Thursday 23 March, he received an honorary doctorate at the Uni...
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Black hole images are not just simple "photographs", but the product of complex human choices (and can be seen at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave) 02 April 2024
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the first-ever image of a black hole. Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame was inte...
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Anthropologist working for the government 01 April 2024
Saskia van Otterloo works as a policy advisor on climate adaptation at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. She gra...
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From Jean-Paul Sartre to the power of theatre: resilience can be found everywhere 28 March 2024
Students of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Strategies of Resilience' are exposed to a unique educational experience. Through philosophical insights and c...
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The Future of Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology Workshop 28 March 2024
From March 11th to 14th, the workshop "The Future of Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology," led by IN THE SAME SEA Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke and h...