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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2022: Robert Okello 20 January 2023The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022 is Robert Okello for his thesis on rural women’s legal empowerment through digital technology in Northern U...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas' 20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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European grant to research Tibetan collection: 'Tibetans' literary output was and is huge' 17 January 2023As a student, university lecturer Berthe Jansen fell under the spell of the Van Manen collection: a collection full of Tibetan writings and objects. A...
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association 16 January 2023Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the Americ...
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Gert Jan Geertjes awarded 2023 Meijers Prize and Van Wersch Springplank Prize 13 January 2023Traditionally, at the beginning of each new calendar year, Leiden Law School awards the Meijers Prizes for the best article in the previous year for e...
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2023 Meijers Lecture and prize winners 12 January 2023The 2023 Meijers Lecture was held on Tuesday 10 January 2023, delivered this year by Dr Tirza Cramwinckel. Following the lecture, the annual Meijers p...
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' 10 January 2023When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros 09 January 2023Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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Psychology Awards 2022 09 January 2023Psychology teacher of the year is Roy de Kleijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Roosmarijn Goldbach en Matija Čuljak. Jeffrey Durieux receives the P...
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Madouc Bergers made her own enzyme inhibitors for her bachelor’s thesis 06 January 2023For her bachelor’s thesis, Molecular Science and Technology student Madouc Bergers synthesized her own molecule that can inhibit the breakdown of suga...
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Mathematics student Alex Colling: ‘Bachelor’s thesis was highlight of my time in Leiden’ 06 January 2023Alex Colling himself calls his bachelor's thesis ‘the highlight of his time in Leiden’. And according to his supervisors, that resulted in an outstand...
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'This course is a simulation of your professional work as an astronomer' 03 January 2023What if I completely changed everything? A subject without lectures or exams, where the right answer is not important and where students work with the...
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?' 03 January 2023Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran ...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress 03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...