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‘We will offer a warm welcome to our students, both in person and online’The University buildings are partially reopening to students. And first-years will be able to discover real-life Leiden or The Hague during the introd...
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Alumna Matilda Siebrecht hosts Experimental Archaeology Podcast: ‘We want to show the range archaeological research can take.’Matilda Siebrecht has found the perfect combination of her interests, namely experimental archaeology, and journalism. She was asked by EXARC, a found...
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Leiden University to participate in Cultural Talent to the Top monitorThis year, Leiden University will participate for the first time in the Cultural Talent to the Top monitor. This will provide insight into the Univers...
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Hester Bijl on racism, inclusion and diversity at Leiden UniversityWe talked to Hester Bijl about the worldwide protests sparked off by the death of George Floyd. A demonstration against racism will also be held in Le...
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Rectores Magnifici: ‘Give students more opportunity to travel by public transport’Meeting in person is crucial to higher education. It would therefore be inadvisable only to allow students to use public transport between 11:00 and 1...
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Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from SchöningenElephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeoli...
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The wide spectrum of research at LeidenTo give a better idea of the research at Leiden University, a new website has been launched that lists the University’s institutes together with the d...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Leiden University 20th in SustainaBul rankingLeiden University has come 20th in the annual SustainaBul ranking. The SustainaBul is a prize awarded to the most sustainable higher education institu...
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the CaribbeanAccording to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several su...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Diversity officer Aya Ezawa on George Floyd and racism: ‘this is a time for reflection’The death of George Floyd has led to fierce protests against police violence in the United States and beyond. What effects are we seeing in our Unive...
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University election results: little change, turnout somewhat lowerThe results of the 2020 University elections have been announced. With the exception of a few seats, little will change in the University Council in c...
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Amanda Henry in Sapiens.org about microfossils in a Finnish skeletal collectionThe Southwestern part of Finland isn’t exactly known as a great place for archeologists to go and find anything than the sturdiest of remains. The con...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...