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How can we live healthier lives? Universities and hospitals are going to find out 21 March 2023Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of ...
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Racism: a daily reality 21 March 2023March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We spoke to Leiden University’s Diversity Officer, Aya Ezawa, and asked h...
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How did trade networks arise in the third millennium BC? 17 March 2023Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, amber from the Baltic and tin from Tajikistan. In the third millennium BC objects and raw materials were transported ov...
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Monique Koemans likes a front-row seat to history in the making 16 March 2023She moved from Sydney to London to Washington, but Leiden was there throughout. ‘Leiden is a surprising constant in my life,’ says alumnus Monique Koe...
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A quick call with Manon Osseweijer about the Leiden Research Support Network 14 March 2023The rules of play for researchers are becoming increasingly complex. This makes it essential that they receive the best possible support with challeng...
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Executive Board column: interdisciplinary collaboration, from suspicion to snowball effect 14 March 2023How is interdisciplinary collaboration faring at Leiden University? And has disciplinarity been completely abandoned? I’d like to reflect on some conc...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story 13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections 13 March 2023The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...
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New portal helps students choose from 200 minors at 3 universities 13 March 2023As from April 2023 all students at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam will start using the eduXchange ...
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Maternal mortality in the Netherlands halved in recent years 06 March 2023The number of women in the Netherlands dying before, during or after childbirth has halved in recent years. This was discovered by Athanasios Kalliani...
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Income and ethnicity are risk factors for cardiovascular disease 06 March 2023Dutch people with a low income are up to 1.5 times more at risk of a heart attack or stroke than their wealthier compatriots. Among Surinamese Hindus ...
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery) 03 March 2023Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, sci...
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Declaration of Equity helps study associations promote diversity and inclusion 02 March 2023Many study associations at Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden are working on diversity and inclusion. But as it’s such a big ...
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Pop-up ArcheoHotspot: A day full of (fake) skeletons, mammoth teeth and Roman pottery 02 March 2023The Faculty of Archaeology turns 25 this year. To celebrate, it opened its doors to the public on 1 March. ‘We want to be an institution that not only...
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This is roughly what the new University Sports and Exam Centre will look like (and where it will be) 28 February 2023The new University Sports and Exam Centre is another step closer. Bigger sports and exam halls, plenty of room for meeting people, an open feel that i...