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When you know how your brain works, you better understand who you are 04 October 2022On Sept. 29, Lara Wierenga, together with graphic designer Dirma Janse, presented their new book Atlas of our Brain. In the presence of fellow scienti...
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor 04 October 2022Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by...
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Update and reminder: Call for proposals Social Resilience & Security programme 04 October 2022On behalf of the interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security, we would like to remind you of the call for proposals for seed funding (up ...
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Executive Board column: Working together to save energy 04 October 2022The rising energy prices cannot have escaped anyone’s notice. They have dominated the news in recent months. As a university, we too face a big challe...
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Health Campus The Hague: working together for better health and care 30 September 2022Better health for all the residents of The Hague region. This is the mission of Health Campus The Hague – formerly LUMC Campus The Hague. Eight partne...
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Leiden Psychology Podcast - A life with Bipolar Disorder 29 September 2022We talk to Justin Sheehan, who was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder type 1 over 14 years ago. Justin is very candid and talks about his first manic epi...
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Hague city councillors on working visit: ‘The Hague is becoming a real student city’ 29 September 2022What does the University mean for The Hague? And what are researchers and students learning from the city and its residents? The Hague city councillor...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturers at...
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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is accompanied by unwanted side...
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Leiden University ends participation in EUniWell pilot 27 September 2022Leiden University has decided to withdraw from EUniWell as of January 2023. The importance of synergy in our international portfolio and research and ...
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Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease 26 September 2022Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. ...
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Seeing Stars: Jupiter steals the show in cloudy night skies 26 September 2022After months of preparation, the moment of truth had arrived: would the skies above Leiden clear for the promised glitzy planet-and-star show? The peo...
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Executive Board column: How can we deal with hate speech? 26 September 2022I was disgusted by the recent Ongehoord Nederland broadcast on 15 September. The racist and hateful comments made by alumna Raisa Blommesteijn were, a...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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Social Resilience & Security seed funding for interdisciplinary research: call for proposals 22 September 2022The interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security is inviting proposals for seed funding. The programme aims to combine knowledge and expe...