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Students once again explore archaeology Oss 31 March 2023Students of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology once again explore the archaeology of Oss between April and May of 2023. New areas along the ...
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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded 30 March 2023With an off-the-charts number of downloads, outstanding media coverage, and more than 300 tweets, a small team behind the Scientific Reports article l...
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Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius 30 March 2023Representatives of the Faculty of Archaeology recently traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius to repatriate human remains. The remains, ori...
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy 30 March 2023At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy ...
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Regieorgaan Open Science officially launched as Open Science NL 29 March 2023Fifteen knowledge institutions and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science have signed the covenant for Open Science NL. Leiden University has ...
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides 29 March 2023The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world 28 March 2023It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...
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Executive Board column: Cybersecurity is our shared responsibility so what do we need to do? 28 March 2023Cyber threats are on the increase. This won’t have escaped anyone’s notice. Monitoring by our cybersecurity experts has shown that there are non-stop ...
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Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology 27 March 2023‘Qasr Bshir is magnificent even in decline. It sits majestically in the landscape, master of all it surveys. On approaching the site, however, it is c...
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum 27 March 2023Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
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‘Nice tool but what are we supposed to do with it?’ 27 March 2023Public agencies are keen to use new technology such as AI to speed up their primary processes. But the internal organisation is often a major stumblin...
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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 ...