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Active Acquaintance for new Archaeology students: ‘Wellbeing, study succes, and having fun is all connected’ 09 September 2024Since 2023 the newly arriving Archaeology students are invited to join an active introduction day during which they get to know the Faculty and each o...
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‘Partying is fine but we still need to protest’ 09 September 2024Leiden University was present for the second time at the second Leiden Pride on Saturday. With a boat with room for 60 students and staff, decorated i...
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Christopher Green wins Education Prize 2024 09 September 2024Christopher Green has won the Teaching Prize 2024. The assistant professor of Korea Studies was presented with the prize during the opening of the fac...
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‘Digital services lean heavily on the social infrastructure’ 09 September 2024Governments worldwide invest huge sums in their digital services and data strategies. Efficiency and effectiveness are key. But these are not achieved...
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Prepared for pain? The impact of the nocebo effect on people with chronic pain 09 September 2024People who have negative expectations about a treatment actually experience more pain. Merve Karacaoglu discovered in her PhD research that anxious an...
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‘Our future depends on funding for education research’ 09 September 2024Higher education research improves the quality of education. And these investments more than pay for themselves in terms of well-being and prosperity....
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During the next pandemic, this mathematical model will speed up the search for treatment 09 September 2024Do you recall all those drugs that were hastily proposed as potential treatments for COVID-19? In the event of a future pandemic, the goal is to offer...
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Executive Board member Martijn Ridderbos to leave Leiden University 06 September 2024Vice-chairman of the Executive Board Martijn Ridderbos will leave Leiden University at the end of this year. As of 1 January 2025, he will take up a n...
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Symposium honouring departing LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn 05 September 2024Pancras Hogendoorn bade farewell as Dean of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the LUMC Board of Directors with a symposium at the LUMC on healthcare, rese...
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NWO grant for research on new type of global organisation 05 September 2024To what extent can global issues be solved by multistakeholder collaboration, a relatively new type of organisation? Jan Aart Scholte, the coordinator...
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected Fellow of the British Academy 05 September 2024Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy, a prestigious recognition that highlights her exceptio...
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Four researchers of FSW receive an ERC starting grant 05 September 2024The Starting Grant is awarded annually by the European Research Council (ERC). This year, 51 researchers in the Netherlands will receive a Starting Gr...
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Alumni enjoy inspirational Leiden Revisited event 05 September 2024On 30 August 2024, former Leiden Law School students once again sat in their favourite spots in the lecture hall at the annual Leiden Revisited event....
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What responsibility do we have towards the Earth System science? An interview with Joeri Reinders 05 September 2024More and more people are facing climate change. How can we ensure that we act climate-proof and climate-neutral? We asked climate and earth scientist ...
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How to hijack natural destruction in cells: ‘We need to understand it through and through’ 05 September 2024Destroying proteins from the Golgi apparatus of the cell in a controlled manner. That is the focus of chemist Marta Artola’s pioneering research. By d...