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Astronomer Jos de Boer receives Chesneau Prize for best dissertationAstronomer Jos de Boer has received the Chesneau Prize in Nice for his research into so-called protoplanetary disks. The prize is awarded to the best ...
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Magic moments at Museum NightLeiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Decreasing prison population in the NetherlandsHilde Wermink, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology was interviewed on this topic for an article published in US News on...
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Moot Court Air and Space Law in council chamber of Leiden Town HallOn 15 May the Space Law Moot Court Competition was held in the council chamber of Leiden Town Hall, organised by the International Institute of Air an...
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Alumni event South and Southeast Asian Studies: an inspiring afternoonOn Saturday 11 May 2019, the BA South and Southeast Asian Studies programme held an Alumni Event for former students. All current students and staff w...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisisIt came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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Two more alumni with their sights on the European ParliamentIt's a no-brainer: of the candidates that you can vote for on 23 May, fourteen have studied at Leiden University. We asked four of them about their mo...
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Alumni stand for European Parliament
Fourteen of the candidates for the European parliamentary elections on 23 May studied at Leiden University. We ask four of them about their motivation...
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Portraits of 28 EU citizens in Leiden by seven anthropologistsAnnick Dezitter from Belgium celebrates 3 October with heart and soul: she has become a fanatical Leidener. Her portrait is part of Leiden meets Europ...
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Good governance while politics failsThe word bureaucracy does not have negative connotations for Ken Meier. Meier, Professor of Bureaucracy and Democracy, has a clear grasp of the relati...
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European Election DilemmasThe European Elections are approaching and we get to take a trip to our local polling station. But the turnout in the Netherlands is likely to be low ...
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‘Knowledge production must fundamentally change’‘Free-market economics has reduced the value of higher education to a question of efficiency and productivity,’ says Sarah de Rijcke. And, she adds, t...
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Ingrid Leijten guest professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in GermanyThis semester, Ingrid Leijten is appointed as a guest professor at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).
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Will employees have to start clocking in again?This week the European Court of Justice ruled that companies in the European Union as of now have to register the amount of hours their employees work...
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CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019: indicators open access and genderThe new indicators introduced in the 2019 edition of the Leiden Ranking provide large-scale systematic evidence to inform science policy discussions o...