News
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men 26 May 2023
The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected...
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room 26 May 2023
A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building 25 May 2023
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networki...
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Executive Board column: Fire, power cut, evacuate... 25 May 2023
We take it for granted that water comes out of the tap and electricity out of the socket. But that isn’t always the case. Last Tuesday began like any ...
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Sarah de Rijcke new dean Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 24 May 2023
Prof. Sarah de Rijcke will succeed Paul Wouters as dean of Leiden University's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW) from 1 January 2024. P...
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Nearly all buildings at LBSP open and operating again from Wednesday 24 May 24 May 2023
Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard ...
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A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration 23 May 2023
Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-sca...
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission 23 May 2023
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. ...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers 22 May 2023
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Early Career Award for Kaya Peerdeman 22 May 2023
Last week, Kaya Peerdeman received the SIPS Early Career Award at the fourth international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Stu...
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Working together in the Leiden Healthy Society Center: ‘It’s only when you make your research visible that you find each other' 22 May 2023
As coordinator and lead promoter respectively of the Leiden Healthy Society Center, psychologists Sandra van Dijk and Anke Klein use interdisciplinary...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023
He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023
It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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A quick call with Corinda van Bohemen about the SteunLeiden.nl crowdfunding platform 16 May 2023
From an emergency fund for Ukrainian students to a golf tournament for cancer research at the LUMC: the Leiden University Fund (LUF) crowdfunding plat...
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3 reasons why you shouldn’t miss ‘Interdisciplinary Collaborations – Food, Sustainability & Health’ 16 May 2023
On Friday June 2, the Liveable Planet event 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations - Food, Sustainability & Health' will take place. Here, researchers can ...