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University launches Vision on Student Well-Being: ‘An open culture where we look out for one another’ 23 March 2023How can we work together to create a safe study and learning environment and offer students the support that they need? The Vision on Student Well-Bei...
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research 23 March 2023Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that ...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens 21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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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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Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis 09 March 2023‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’
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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 ...