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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant22 November 2022Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enab...
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Art project has students and lecturers reflecting on pressure to succeed17 November 2022What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’? This is the focus of the Perspectify exhibition, which was opened on 16 November by President of the Ex...
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Tackle debt with healthcare funds: researchers on a healthier society for all16 November 2022Technology, medical knowledge, social measures and the design of the living environment: all these needed to achieve a healthier society. In a series ...
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From acute care maze to acute care network10 November 2022Acute care agencies in the Netherlands are overwhelmed and this causes major problems. Physician-researcher Naomi Minderhout therefore spent the past ...
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands10 November 2022How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn appointed as Professor Law and Health09 November 2022Starting 1 October 2022, Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorn has been appointed as Professor Law and Health.
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The minefield that is unacceptable behaviour14 October 2022University is often a period of sexual exploration and experimentation, generally to the satisfaction of all involved. But sometimes you want it and t...
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’05 October 2022‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the...
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What rights do donors have?30 September 2022Collaboration is worthwhile. A joint LUMC and Leiden Law School project has received €142,500 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will a...
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Health Campus The Hague: working together for better health and care30 September 2022Better health for all the residents of The Hague region. This is the mission of Health Campus The Hague – formerly LUMC Campus The Hague. Eight partne...
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Official opening of the Acts of Kindness pillar in the Lipsius building26 September 2022It has already been a huge success in The Hague, and now the Lipsius building has one, too: an Acts of Kindness pillar. The official opening took plac...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’05 September 2022The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times...
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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID15 August 2022Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance thi...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers11 July 2022Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Antibiotic treatments make us more susceptible to negative emotions08 July 2022People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerin...