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2023 Meijers Lecture and prize winners 12 January 2023The 2023 Meijers Lecture was held on Tuesday 10 January 2023, delivered this year by Dr Tirza Cramwinckel. Following the lecture, the annual Meijers p...
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New Year’s speech 2023 & Meijers Medal 12 January 2023On Tuesday 10 January, the Meijers Lecture was held followed by the New Year’s reception in the restaurant of the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw. Dean Joanne...
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Bonobos, unlike humans, are more interested in the emotions of strangers than acquaintances 11 January 2023Humans and bonobos show striking similarities as well as differences when they see pictures of conspecifics. Both are more interested in photos of con...
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Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation 11 January 2023On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on internatio...
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Hybrid fieldwork: from emergency solution to research enrichment 11 January 2023You have prepared a research project, put together a plan, and you are ready to travel to the country where you will be conducting your fieldwork. Wha...
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Peter Rodrigues ‘The boundaries for discrimination have shifted’ 11 January 2023The judicial authorities are looking into the possibilities for prosecution for the slogans that were projected on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on ...
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' 10 January 2023When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan on 'Spraakmakers' about mining the moon 10 January 2023Commercial parties offering space travel, space waste, claiming the moon, potentially exploiting resources ... It’s going to get busy in space in the ...
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Medical Delta Professor Eline Slagboom: ‘The delta region is where everything comes together’ 10 January 2023Professor Eline Slagboom has been studying multiple generations of families for over 20 years. She collects data on why some people age healthily and ...
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Annual overview Leiden2022: Leiden Law School 10 January 2023A presentation on the latest developments in artificial intelligence and law, several public lectures on Criminal Justice, and a brand new trial in wh...
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Mariëlle Bruning on waiting lists in Dutch youth care 10 January 2023How many children are waiting for help from youth services in the Netherlands at any given time? And exactly how long do they have to wait?
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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses 10 January 2023A circular water supply for Artis Zoo, sustainable software for the Dutch government and better waste management at a hospital: master’s students in I...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros 09 January 2023Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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Psychology Awards 2022 09 January 2023Psychology teacher of the year is Roy de Kleijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Roosmarijn Goldbach en Matija Čuljak. Jeffrey Durieux receives the P...