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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers signs international book contract with Penguin Press 06 April 2023
Back in 2020, Dr Maikel Kuijpers started to write for The Correspondent. His articles offered readers a unique long-term insight into the materials th...
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking 05 April 2023
It is the seventh year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universi...
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Let’s talk more about adversity’ 04 April 2023
How can we help our students build resilience and prevent unnecessary stress? And how do we break the taboo on failure? These and other questions are ...
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Greater job satisfaction thanks to a career coach: ‘All the puzzle pieces fell into place’ 04 April 2023
You need not be completely miserable in your current job to start a discussion about your professional development. And if internal career coaching st...
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer 04 April 2023
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other? Bart Barendregt, Professor...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023
Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded 30 March 2023
With 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 2023
Representatives 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 2023
At 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 2023
Fifteen 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 2023
The 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 2023
It 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 2023
Cyber 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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‘Nice tool but what are we supposed to do with it?’ 27 March 2023
Public 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...