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Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests
Workshops, tours, talks, music, an AI photobooth, interviews, a special poem and the launch of the LUF Children’s Fund. Alumni celebrated their alma mater’s 450th birthday in style on Saturday at the massively oversubscribed Dies Natalis Festival.
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15 million awarded for research into misinformation among youth
Developmental psychologist Ili Ma has been awarded an ERC grant to investigate misinformation among teenagers, aiming to bolster their resilience against its potentially severe consequences.
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Executive Board column: From the outside looking in (and vice versa)
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 strengthen our ties and create new opportunities for teaching and research.
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Marcel Belderbos: ‘I am an idealist’
Marcel Belderbos (31) studied History and International Relations and for a year he has been working at the Faculty of Humanities as a research policy officer. He is fascinated by the cooperation between various actors within the faculty. And: ‘I truly believe that the world will become a better place…
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For LGBT+ migrants, dating apps are about much more than sex
When you think of migration, you probably won’t immediately think of dating apps. Yet such apps are important to many migrants, such as those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer or questioning (LGBT+). Researcher Andrew DJ Shield studied the role that dating apps play in the migration process,…
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How superconducting memory could help data centres reduce their carbon footprint
Online services are stored on servers in data centres. Remko Fermin researched methods to make the memory in data centres more energy efficient.
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From COA to the Red Cross: students and partners get to know each other
From COA to the police and from the Red Cross to a ministry, in the coming months, students from the Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) will have the opportunity to work on real solutions for partner organisations. In December partners and students met for the first time. 'It is a great opportunity to…
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…
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Honours College Law expansion: inclusive, personal, collaborative
The Honours College Law (HC Law) is soon going to look very different. What does the HC Law currently do, and what’s going to change? Why should you apply for it? To answer these questions, we spoke to Maartje van der Woude, Designated Professor at the HC Law. She’s designing the new programme in collaboration…
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Leiden Law Cast #7: Law and computers with Professor Jaap van den Herik
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Executive Board column: Energy and new insights at the strategic conference
It’s become somewhat of a tradition at Leiden University: the strategic conference at the end of June each year. About a hundred staff including the faculty boards, academic directors, directors of the expertise centres and Administration and Central Services, the representative councils and student…
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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful'
The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology, explains why the renovation was needed: 'More visible cohesion between cultures, more context and more artistic lighting.'
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Royal honour for Korrie Korevaart
Korrie Korevaart, a former director and lecturer in Dutch language and culture at Leiden University, has been made a member of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Korevaart, who has retired but is still a guest member of staff at the university, has received the honour for her work at the Faculty of Humanities…
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Introducing: Lauren Lauret
In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.
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How do you measure democracy? Leiden political scientist collaborates on international freedom report
Wouter Veenendaal, a political scientist at Leiden University, is an analyst for the Freedom House report. Freedom House is an American non-profit organisation dedicated to democracy, political freedom and human rights. In short, the report describes the degree of freedom and the state of democracy…
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep?
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforced digitalisation has brought us valuable innovations and smart tools. The question is: what’s going well and what could we do differently? I’d love to…
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Executive Board column: Trust in one another’s abilities makes us more agile
People in leadership roles are unlikely to discuss leadership skills with their colleagues. But that is precisely what we as a university would like them to do. Because trust in one another’s abilities will make us an agile university that innovates and makes room for talent.
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‘As a former refugee, I want to give something back’
Niloufar Rahim, from Afghanistan, fled to the Netherlands with her family. She studied medicine in Leiden and now shares her knowledge with students of medicine in Afghanistan.
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Internships crucial for networking and jobs
It would be better for students and organisations if internships lasted longer than two months and could be part-time. This was one of the suggestions at Leiden University Meets/Needs Employers on 27 June 2017.
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Barista Sander Snel: ‘Every customer deserves a friendly welcome’
On a busy day, Sander Snel sees three hundred people at his coffee counter in the Herta Mohr building. ‘It's fun to remember everyone's favourite drink.’
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The two faces of MuSK antibody pathogenicity and their cause and consequences in myasthenia gravis
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Understanding uncertainty
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Immunotherapy in advanced melanoma - crossing borders
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Unpacking the rich tapestry of Chinese culture: the interplay between parental socialization and children's social functioning
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Bibliotheca Enchusana
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Metagenomic sequencing in clinical virology: advances in pathogen detection and future prospects
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Platinum Surface Instabilities and their Impact in Electrochemistry
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Gender and Agency in Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
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Bibliometrics in the Context of Research Evaluation and Research Policy
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The Imperative of Success; United Nations Peacekeeping in Cambodia (1991-1993)
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Cultivating the art of hearing and being heard
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Intelligence for a Complex Environment
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Long-Term Observation of Protein Dynamics via Thermal-Snapshot Single Molecule Spectroscopy
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Giant galactic outflows and shocks in the Cosmic Web
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The unruly image
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Ecology of the White Lion
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Synthesis of D-alanylated wall teichoic acids from Staphylococcus aureus
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The Teaching of Khety and Its Use as an Educational Tool in Ancient Egypt
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Environmental sustainability of NdFeB magnet recycling: Foresight study on recycling systems and technologies
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Provo van de politieke pornografie
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Design and synthesis of metal-based chemotherapeutic agents for targeted DNA interactions or DNA repair pathway modulation
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Inhibitors and probes targeting PslG
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Dimensions of student participation: Participatory action research in a teacher education context
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Photocleavable, Activity-Based Acid Glucosylceramidase Probes
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Transcriptional regulation of monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus
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The dust and molecular gas in the torus of NGC 1068
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Moving statues
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Gas physics of simulated galaxy clusters
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Control of early plant development by light quality
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Dynamism and Democracy: Essays on the Fiscal Social Contract in a Globalised World
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