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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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Leiden Alumni China eventsLiving in China and want to meet other Leiden Alumni? Read about the new Leiden Alumni Chapter in China and join them on LinkedIn and the upcoming e...
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The Wow Effect: Weekend School Pupils Return to WijnhavenThe last time they visited Campus The Hague was back in March, the pupils from The Hague department of ICM Weekend School. On Sunday 13 September, the...
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From Leiden student to Australian Ambassador to the Holy SeeChiara Porro from Australia studied International Relations and Diplomacy at Leiden University and has been Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See sin...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird songFor a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...
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Van Vollenhoven Institute concludes NWO study on police vetting in KenyaFollowing periods of oppression and widespread violations of human rights, there is often a need for transitional vetting – a sort of ‘cleansing’ of t...
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Rising infections: how is the University responding?The infection rate is rising again in the Netherlands, which means it may also be rising among Leiden University’s students and staff. How is the Univ...
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EP Member Samira Rafaela speaks at opening lecture Master European LawEurope is going to invest billions in those areas where COVID-19 has hit hardest, Ms Rafaela said. ‘And only if we truly show the people that this is ...
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Board change during turbulent times: 'I have the utmost confidence in Suzy'On 1 September, Menno Tuurenhout handed over the position of Director of Operational Management in the Faculty Board to Suzy Sirks-Bong. How does he l...
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Liza Cornet wins national final of FamelabNeurospyschologist Liza Cornet is the winner of the national final of Famelab. Famelab is an international science communication competition for young...
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New online national platform Sport Data Valley connects science and sportA consortium of knowledge institutes, led by Leiden University launched an online platform for analysis and research of sports and movement data on 7 ...
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan: we will need multilateral discussionNASA is offering to buy lunar samples collected by companies for a token sum primarily to set a precedent for space resource rights on the moon. Howev...
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Royal distinction for linguist Ingrid TiekenProfessor of Sociohistorical Linguistics Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 11 Septembe...
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Special alumni gift to Indonesia at 75The Republic of Indonesia celebrated its 75th Independence Day on 17 August 2020. As a gift to celebrate this, on the initiative of a group of Leiden ...