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How brightly coloured pillars reduce student loneliness in Leiden25 September 2023Since last year, coloured pillars have been dotted around the university campus. These are ‘Acts of Kindness Pillars’ where students can hang cards re...
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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’25 September 2023A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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Focus on well-being at PhD event18 September 2023'Make sure you separate yourself from your work.' And, 'Your dissertation doesn't have to be a magnum opus.' It was raining tips for PhD students at t...
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1K Z1E J3 benches at Faculty of Humanities18 September 2023As part of Leiden University’s aim to be a safe and healthy environment for all staff and students, several activities and lectures were organised in ...
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Leiden University joins national 113 campaign: ‘It’s okay to feel uncomfortable about talking about suicide’05 September 2023
Talking about suicide is important, but anything but comfortable. To make this difficult subject easier for students and staff to discuss, the univers...
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Internationalisation enriches: malaria research in Indonesia and lectures by professors from Nigeria24 August 2023Georgia, Ukraine, Palestine, Tunisia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Suriname and Brazil: Leiden University has secured...
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Vidi grant for research into childhood trauma, friendship and mental health29 June 2023Anne-Laura van Harmelen – Professor of Professor Brain, Safety and Resilience and one of the coordinators of the Social Resilience and Security interd...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers27 June 2023Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer06 June 2023Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...
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New Humanities Living Room focuses on 'feeling at home'18 May 2023Playing a game, picking a cutting for your room or just having a cup of coffee: it is all possible in the new Humanities Living Room in the Matthias d...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’17 May 2023He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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Young people's burning brain questions bundled in new research agenda10 May 2023During ExpeditionNEXT in Middelburg, NeurolabNL youth, together with researchers from Leiden University and Erasmus University, handed over a unique r...
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?03 May 2023Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the poli...
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‘Not everyone has health goals top of mind’01 May 2023Doctors can fix a lot, but preventing or delaying disease is better. This often requires lifestyle changes, which turn out to be difficult. Sandra van...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society14 April 2023Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...