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Security Studies and Liberal Arts and Sciences (LUC) awarded bronze medal EW Best Studies 202329 November 2023The BSc Security Studies and LUC both received a bronze medal in EW Best Studies 2023. This means that students of these programmes are above-average ...
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Global problems, local actions: Leiden professors help teachers, students and citizens to engage with environmental issues29 November 2023In 2021, Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens — both Associate Professors in Environmental Sciences at Leiden University — received funding from the Leiden U...
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Statistical literacy: ‘It’s about how we teach, not what we can teach’28 November 2023Assistant Professor Lucie Zicha at Leiden University College (LUC) in The Hague is on a mission to bring statistical literacy to all undergraduate stu...
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‘Honours helps you face your future with more confidence’27 November 2023After three years of courses, exercises, debating and reflecting, Honours College students received their certificate during a festive ceremony. Even ...
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Four projects awarded science communication grants24 November 2023A climate game, a science and music festival, a mobile psychology lab and interactive sessions on anxiety in children. The Dutch Research Council (NWO...
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Looking at the past with VR glasses: 'It really helps to visualise the impact of policy'24 November 2023A subject like history is all about the past. That often involves scrolling through old documents, but in the Research Master's in History, Professor ...
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’22 November 2023Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course,...
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Farewell lecture Peter Rodrigues, Professor of Immigration Law21 November 2023On Friday 6 October 2023, Peter Rodrigues delivered his farewell lecture ‘Ongelijkheidscompensatie in het vreemdelingenrecht’ (inequality compensatio...
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How to build resilience in times of climate crisisExcursie Honours College FSW 20 November 2023In the honours course Sustainability & Health, students examine the causes and effects of climate change – but also how they can relate to these thems...
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18 billion animals a year: they die, but never end up on our plate20 November 2023Each year a staggering 18 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, and cows either die or are killed without making it onto someone's plate. Env...
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‘In ten years’ time, we’ll ask ourselves how we can make the Netherlands more attractive for migrants’16 November 2023When politicians claim they can make major differences with their migration policies, they’re raising false expectations. The opportunities for the go...
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Jayshri Ramadhin wins Moot Court Challenge Cup16 November 2023This was the twelfth occasion that the Moot Court Challenge Cup has been awarded! This time for the best oral argument at the Moot Court held in the s...
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‘Handboeken Veiligheid’ are well known: 'Very special that this series has been running for almost 25 years'15 November 2023For almost 25 years, ‘de Handboeken Veiligheid’ have been a phenomenon. Who does not have a copy on their bookshelf? In 2024, the series will be celeb...
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Dual Medical Delta appointment for six Leiden professors and one lecturer15 November 2023Six professors and one lecturer from Leiden University have officially been appointed Medical Delta professors or lecturers. They were inaugurated sim...
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As many as a hundred ideas in minor Living Education Lab14 November 2023Students presented the prototypes of educational tools they made in the first ten weeks of the new minor Living Education Lab. We asked two students ...