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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong KongLeiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programmeLast Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s...
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Marjet de Ruyter’s Leiden Experience: ‘The Education Office is a serious partner in organising the education’Marjet de Ruyter is a fresh face at our Faculty. Starting only at the end of August 2019, as Team Leader of the Education Office, at the time of writi...
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‘You gain a better understanding of why people migrate to certain places’Migration and diversity are key factors in one of the most fundamental transformations of society today. Students study this phenomenon in the Leiden-...
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A Change of Course: When Will We Realise We Are All In The Same BoatPart Three: A Change of Course
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packingIn 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, Brit...
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Les Cottés excavations reveals how Neandertals and Homo sapiens adapted to a changing climate 40,000 years agoThe transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is a major biological and cultural threshold in the construction of our common humanity. Technological...
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Rebuilding Palmyra in MinecraftWith RoMeincraft, you get to play the popular computer game Minecraft while learning about the ancient Romans. RoMeincraft, the project of the VALUE F...
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Your opinion of the library counts!What do you think of our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to know!
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Piloting FAIR metadata with iRODS and YODA at Leiden UniversityThe FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles are a framework for researchers to make their scholarly output ready for use an...
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‘Spying’ on talented lecturersGood teaching isn’t as easy as it might seem. In November, the Month of Open Teaching, staff at Leiden University therefore have the opportunity to ‘s...
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Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on BarbadosThe dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton's Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research ha...
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glueAdhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. ...
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Students help staff adopt healthier habits at Healthy University WeekStudents on the Health and Medical Psychology master’s programme have developed workshops on topics including reducing stress and being more active at...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film FestivalA film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...