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Alumna first female rector of Venice: 'More women needed in academia' 09 April 2021
Alumna Tiziana Lippiello became the first female rector magnificus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last year. In this way, she hopes to contribute...
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives? 01 April 2021
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these ...
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ACPA alumna Bárbara Varassi Pega publishes The Art of Tango, the re-work of her doctoral dissertation 25 March 2021
In 2014 Argentinean pianist and researcher specialized in tango music, Bárbara Varassi Pega, obtained her PhD degree on the thesis titled 'Creating an...
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Film by Visual Ethnography alumna selected for the RAI Film Festival 19 March 2021
'Don’t Let the sunny weather fool you' a film made by Visual Ethnography alumna Guusje Meeuwissen has been selected for the RAI film festival in Londo...
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Alumni Event Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law 17 March 2021
On March 16 students and alumni of the Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law were brought together in an online Zoom event organ...
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A university in times of corona: one year on 15 March 2021
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we foun...
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LUC Alumna makes it to Trouw Sustainable 100 11 March 2021
The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, ...
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Finding a job in times of COVID 02 March 2021
Finding a job can be quite a challenge, especially when there is a global pandemic that seriously impacts the job market. Needless to say, this makes ...
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines 18 February 2021
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help e...
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The quest for the magic angle 18 February 2021
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science sti...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection 18 February 2021
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict ...
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A thousand participants in Dies for alumni 16 February 2021
The Dies Natalis for alumni on 11 February was an online event. Almost 1,000 alumni tuned in to Bastiaan Rijpkema’s interview with Annetje Ottow, who ...
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Loes Janssen in NWO Synergy Award final 03 February 2021
Loes Janssen would like to foster well-being of families by using an app and sending families short and fun activities each day to do together. For th...
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eLaw Alumnus wins European Data Protection Law Review ‘Young Scholar Award’ at CPDP 01 February 2021
Taner Kuru, an eLaw alumnus, was awarded the prestigious European Data Protection Law Review ‘Young Scholar Award’ for his paper on the shortcomings i...
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Alumnus (90) donates historic house to Leiden University 29 January 2021
Alumnus Ruurt Hazewinkel (90) has presented Leiden University with a special gift: a historic house on Leiden’s Rapenburg canal. He handed over the ke...