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Hall of fame 2020: Students and staff in the spotlight 08 December 2020Throughout this past year many students and staff at Leiden Law School received a prize or grant, were shortlisted for a prize or appointed to an acad...
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The Musical Work, Free Improvisation, and Live Electronics: Towards an Integrated Musical Paradigm. 07 December 2020Composer, bass player and ACPA alumnus Ilya Ziblat Shay presented a paper at the Music Weekend and Midlands New Music Symposium, organised by Nottingh...
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UN Youth Delegate Dennis Jansen: 'We live as if there are ten earths' 02 December 2020Alumnus Dennis Jansen was recently elected as Youth Delegate at the United Nations. For the next two years, he is committed to the area of Sustainable...
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Green Light from the Advisory Board Legal Technologies program 27 November 2020Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...
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‘In those days you could learn as much as you wanted at university’ 19 November 2020Having flirted with Egyptology and Italian, Dieuwertje Kuijpers found her true calling in the Master’s in European Union Studies. She is now a freelan...
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A flash interview with a foreign alumna: Selina about hagelslag and what inspires her at working for a large firm 16 November 2020German alumna Selina Holstein tells us all about the Dutch broodjes & hagelslag, the team diversity and variety in work while working for a large firm...
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Leiden alumni who graduated between 2016-2018 soon found a job 13 November 2020Most Leiden master’s students who graduated between October 2016 and September 2018 soon found a job that was related to their degree programme. These...
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica writes youth novel about Rwanda 26 October 2020Writing a story from the perspective of a Rwandan girl set in Africa is not an easy task. Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica did it. Her debut no...
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‘Surgeons and rowers have a lot in common’ 19 October 2020Rower Boudewijn Röell (31) already has one Olympic medal, but he's hoping to win another in Tokyo. 'At some point, though, you do have to stop.' Easi...
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Air and Space Law graduates present paper at IAC 2020 19 October 2020Recent graduates of the Adv. LLM in Air and Space Law presented their paper titled "Leiden LLM students and the legal and policy aspects of space reso...
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Alumna Amber Brantsen: ‘Allow yourself to make mistakes’ 15 October 2020A glowing first-time mother-to-be with an impressive CV for someone of her age, newsreader Amber Brantsen would seem to lead a charmed life. ‘But I be...
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New chairperson for the Leiden University Alumni Association in Indonesia 13 October 2020The Indonesian Leiden University Alumni Association - IKALI bid farewell to Mutiara Indriani, the first Chair of the association since its establishme...
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Virologist Eric Snijder: ‘Vaccination will be going well in 2021’ 12 October 2020The research group of Eric Snijder, Professor of Molecular Virology (LUMC), has been conducting research on coronaviruses for decades. Then in March t...
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‘The corona crisis could have been much worse’ 06 October 2020The banking system was in dire need of an overhaul; that much was clear from the credit crisis in 2008. The EU has made significant changes since. PhD...
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Van der Helm is 'Stadsfotograaf' Leidsch Dagblad 28 September 2020Every year a photographer portrays Leiden as Stadsfotograaf (City Photographer) of the Leidsch Dagblad. This year it is the honor to Leonie van der He...