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Lise Stork wins award for app to share biodiversity dataFifty thousand euros in expert knowledge and the title Young eScientist 2019: the National eScience Symposium on 21 November was very successful for c...
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Snouck Hurgronje Prize goes to Leiden Resuscitation DayQuick resuscitation can save lives, but under 1% of the population of Leiden is a community first responder. Student associations and various partners...
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More accurate estimation of cross-border internet purchasesHow can cross-border internet purchases be accurately estimated? Researchers Quinten Meertens, Cees Diks, Jaap van den Herik and Frank Takes of the Le...
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Honorary doctorate for South African professor, Lungisile NtsebezaSouth African professor Lungisile Ntsebeza will receive an honorary doctorate on the Foundation Day of Leiden University on Friday 7 February. Ntsebez...
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Robots and our data: opportunity or danger?Self-driving cars, surgery robots, and stock market algorithms: the use of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly increasing. What are the...
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Kohei Suzuki receives grant from the Swedish Research CouncilKohei Suzuki, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration recently received a large research project grant from the Swedish Research...
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More PhDs awarded to women than men in 2019For the first time ever, more women than men have been awarded PhDs at Leiden University. In 2019, 226 women defended their dissertations as opposed t...
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Jan Melissen on Politico.eu about diplomacyMany years ago, Winston Churchill said; ‘Jaw to jaw is better than war’. Therefore the quality of the jaw to jaw and diplomacy is important. Unfortuna...
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Hanna Bosdriesz awarded doctorate cum laudeOn 3 December 2019 Hanna Bosdriesz defended her dissertation on the fight against impunity for grave human rights violations in Latin America.
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Last ILS Lunch Seminar of 2019 with Cecily Rose and Eduard Fosch VillarongaThe monthly ILS Lunch seminars bring together colleagues and students from Leiden Law School, providing an informal setting to hear what researchers f...
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Arco Timmermans on the accelerated implementation of road pricing measures in Dutch radio programme BNR Lobbypanel
Each week, Dutch radio programme BNR Lobbypanel discusses a topic at the intersection of politics and entrepreneurship. From 2020 Arco Timmermans, Pro...
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Faculty of Science takes action against high work stressThe Faculty of Science has presented an infographic with tips and tricks for work stress. The reason for this was the Personnel Monitor 2018, which sh...
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Joris Larik hosts Brexit Policy Roundtable in The HagueOn 15 November 2019, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor at LUC and Convener of the International Justice major, convened a policy roundtable on “Bre...
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Dance, poetry and food bring together international studentsPractically the whole world came together on International Cultural Night on 29 November. International students got together on this night organised ...
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Better understanding of disease thanks to organs-on-chipsFor medical research, researchers often recreate tissue in the lab. Organ-on-a-chip technology emulates organs, right down to the blood that flows thr...