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AI internship for students on reducing administrative burden in healthcare11 March 2025Health and well-being staff spend at least 25 per cent of their working hours on admin.* Time that could be used for care. Much of this work could be ...
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’Meet the professor 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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Jan Anthonie Bruijn: The world cannot survive without interdisciplinary knowledgeAfscheidscollege 03 February 2025‘Wonder is the beginning of insight. Don’t let that academic curiosity erode.’ This was Jan Anthonie Bruijn’s call to administrators and funding bodie...
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Keuzegids: six top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University19 December 2024Leiden University has six top bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2025, a consumer guide to university programmes. This puts L...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202417 December 2024Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind in...
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LUMC first medical programme to include AI in curriculum06 August 2024How do you make effective use of AI and medical technology? And what role do you play in this as a doctor? This is what the LUMC/Leiden University is ...
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Young people’s experience of mental health problems help improve medical training and practice11 July 2024LUMC Curium and the Dutch National Youth Council (NJR) have been working together for over five years on integrating young people’s lived experiences ...
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Marlies Reinders new Dean of Faculty of Medicine and member of LUMC Board of Directors21 June 2024As of 1 October, Marlies Reinders (1973) will be the new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and will sit on the LUMC’s Board of Directors. This will retu...
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Leiden University/LUMC to drop cum laude honour for Master’s in Medicine10 April 2024As of 1 September 2024, the cum laude honour will no longer be awarded for the Master’s in Medicine. The Executive Board recently decided to grant an ...
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‘Actively listening makes a difference but can be harder than removing a tumour’26 March 2024As Professor of Translational Neuro-oncology, Marike Broekman researches how brain tumour treatment can be improved. She will discuss this in her inau...
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’25 March 2024This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks21 March 2024The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students...
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide21 March 2024The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. Thi...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines03 January 2024Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...