News
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast 26 September 2024
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the int...
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Leiden University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants 26 September 2024
Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance. The projec...
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University 26 September 2024
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discriminati...
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Honorable mentions for Hannah Appel and Kimmy Shah (LDT) at VPR/VPRA Scriptieprijs 2024 26 September 2024
On Friday 20 September, the Dutch associations for Privacy Law (VPR) and for Privacy Law Attorneys (VPR-A) announced their annual thesis award winner ...
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Dean Koen Caminada on budget cuts: ‘There’s nothing we can’t handle’ 25 September 2024
It’s still difficult to estimate what the consequences of the announced budget cuts will be. A week after Prinsjesdag, Dean Koen Caminada can already ...
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Successful ‘landmark decisions’ panel discussion at ISLSSL World Congress in Rome 25 September 2024
Yvonne Erkens and Fieke Weber, both from the Department of Labour Law and Social Security, recently organised a panel discussion on behalf of the Inte...
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus alliance signs collaboration agreement with Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science 25 September 2024
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) alliance signed a collaboration agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology on...
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Outer solar system possibly formed by a passing star 24 September 2024
The many thousands of small celestial bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit may have ended up there due to a star that passed close to the solar system billio...
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Come to the (science) fair on 3 October! 24 September 2024
Want to find out how to assemble a human skeleton? Do you know what chemistry can be found around you? And are you easily fooled by fake news? Discove...
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The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results? 24 September 2024
Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Co...
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Letizia Lo Giacco winner of the 2024 Rosalyn Higgins Prize for best article 24 September 2024
Dr Letizia Lo Giacco is the recipient of the 2024 Rosalyn Higgins Prize for her article titled 'When a Dispute Exists: The Emerging Evidentiary Practi...
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Why do a Master Honours Challenge? ‘Step away from your own square millimetre’ 24 September 2024
Learning how to work with people from different disciplines, that’s what Master Honours Challenges are all about. In teams, students address a challen...
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Receiving a scholarship, what’s next? ‘This scholarship helps me to realise my dream’ 24 September 2024
This academic year, we are welcoming several international students who have started studying at FGGA with a prestigious scholarship. We asked them ab...
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Leiden PhD candidate writes children’s book to get girls excited about technology 24 September 2024
PhD candidate Karen van den Akker has written a children’s book to get young girls excited about technology. The picture book ‘Met mama naar Mars’ tel...
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders' 24 September 2024
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of...