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Honours students participate in poster presentations at Reuvensdagen 06 December 2019
On Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Re...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong 15 November 2019
Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day? 22 October 2019
The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
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Archaeology Open Day: ‘Excavations are cool’ 14 October 2019
‘We’ve come because our granddaughter started studying archaeology here this year. But I’m really interested in archaeology too.’ The Open Day at the ...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant 09 September 2019
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans 02 September 2019
Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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Innovative online course on Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology 02 July 2019
Simulation is a formal scientific method used to develop, compare and test hypotheses (models). In the last few decades the use of simulation has incr...
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‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’ 08 April 2019
‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘...
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Young Academy Leiden: bursting with youthful zeal 21 March 2019
Great things are expected of Young Academy Leiden. The first 13 members of this society for young researchers will provide the Executive Board with fr...
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Master’s Open Day: ‘I’ve mainly come to ask a lot of questions’ 18 March 2019
It was a soggy Friday, but the visitors to the Master's Open Day were made of sterner stuff. Bachelor's students from all around the world defied the ...
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Neolithic house goes up in flames 12 March 2019
Leiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them...
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Record number of visitors to Bachelor's Open Day: ‘My mum misses me already’ 25 February 2019
What can you expect from studying in Leiden or The Hague? Which programme should you choose? Should you join a student association and will you need t...
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A real professor in front of the class 08 February 2019
A lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loan 19 October 2018
Leiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
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Joanne Mol is among the first at Leiden University to receive qualification SKO (Senior Kwalificatie Onderwijs) 16 October 2018
On Thursday, 4th October, Director of Education, Joanne Mol, received the qualification SKO (Senior Kwalificatie Onderwijs) This qualification not onl...