News
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story 13 March 2023
The 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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Professor by special appointment Rogier Hartendorp on collaboration with The Hague District Court 13 March 2023
Rogier Hartendorp is professor by special appointment of social effectiveness of justice at Leiden University and a judge at The Hague District Court....
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections 13 March 2023
The 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 2023
As 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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Maternal mortality in the Netherlands halved in recent years 06 March 2023
The 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 2023
Dutch 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 ...
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery) 03 March 2023
Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, sci...
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Declaration of Equity helps study associations promote diversity and inclusion 02 March 2023
Many study associations at Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden are working on diversity and inclusion. But as it’s such a big ...
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Pop-up ArcheoHotspot: A day full of (fake) skeletons, mammoth teeth and Roman pottery 02 March 2023
The Faculty of Archaeology turns 25 this year. To celebrate, it opened its doors to the public on 1 March. ‘We want to be an institution that not only...
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This is roughly what the new University Sports and Exam Centre will look like (and where it will be) 28 February 2023
The new University Sports and Exam Centre is another step closer. Bigger sports and exam halls, plenty of room for meeting people, an open feel that i...
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A quick call with Tanja de Bie about the Sustainability Network 28 February 2023
Would you like to take concrete steps toward a sustainable university or do you have a broad interest in sustainability? Over 200 staff members have a...
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Executive Board column: From the outside looking in (and vice versa) 28 February 2023
We know more together than alone. To increase our university’s impact on the region, we have to be open to the world outside. This is how we strengthe...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ 27 February 2023
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Put away those textbooks and relax: the Living Room is open 23 February 2023
Leiden University opened the doors of its new Living Room on Thursday 16 February. The Living Room is a home from home where Dutch and international s...
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture 23 February 2023
Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March. This year’s lecture will be g...