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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Mr. Seán Ivory, the Mr. Hugo Weiland Prize Winner for Best Thesis in Central European studies, presents his thesis research27 November 2025On Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, Mr. Seán Ivory (VU) presented part of his prize-winning research in a lunch talk entitled Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politi...
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity27 November 2025What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the ans...
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Alumnus Fradinta Laksmita: ‘Finance affects almost every part of life’Alumni interview 27 November 2025Fradinta Laksmita came to Leiden in 2023 for the Advanced Master Law & Finance during her sabbatical. She has since returned to Jakarta and now works ...
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Celebrating 20 years of Sino-Dutch environmental researchHIGH-LEVEL VISIT 27 November 2025Smarter construction, cleaner energy and greener cities: This week, we welcomed a high-level delegation at CML. A visit that marks 20 years of Sino-Du...
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Carbon footprint of global steel production remains high: ‘Capturing CO₂ won’t solve it’SUSTAINABILITY 27 November 2025Steel production is likely to take up a large portion of our future carbon budget. Capturing CO₂ from coal-based production won’t solve the problem. T...
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Keuzegids: seven top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University27 November 2025Leiden University has seven top-rated bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2026, a consumer guide to university programmes. Thi...
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NWO grant for insecticides without side effects for humans and wildlifeGRANT AWARDED 27 November 2025Maurijn van der Zee searches for insecticides that protect crops without harming wildlife or leaving residues in our food. His GREENSHIELD project rec...
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‘To truly understand the brain, we must understand the chemistry’PhD defence 27 November 2025How do fats and enzymes in the brain contribute to multiple sclerosis? In his PhD research, Daan van der Vliet combined chemistry and neuroscience to ...
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The Digital Omnibus is a risk for our digital rights26 November 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, was interviewed by EUobserver and Al Jazeera English on the European Commission...
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Cleveringa Lecture moved because of demonstration in Academy Building26 November 2025A small group of Students for Palestine demonstrators occupied the Academy Building on Rapenburg in the afternoon of Wednesday 26 November. The Clever...
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Care and social-work professionals need to collaborate better – and reflect morePromotion 26 November 2025Many people in the Netherlands experience physical, psychological and social problems at the same time. They therefore rely on support from multiple p...
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A peek inside the life of extremist families26 November 2025PhD candidate Layla van Wieringen examined how extremist beliefs are passed on within households. In her dissertation ‘Rotten Trees, Bad Apples? Under...
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Looking back on the Research Day 2025: It Takes a Village – Shaping Interdisciplinary FuturesCollaboration between FSW and FGGA 26 November 2025'Let's make this a twice-yearly tradition!'– a feeling shared by many after the vibrant Research Day. Engagement started early, with participants conn...
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Two new programme directors to start in the new yearApointments 26 November 2025In early 2026, two new programme directors will begin their roles at FWN. Joost Broekens will take charge of the bachelor’s programme in Data Science ...