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NWO reports on VIDI project Erik Kwakkel 04 February 2016
In his VIDI project “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance” (2010-2015) Erik Kwakkel and his team studied...
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Book presentation 'Opportunities in the Kingdom'. 200 years of student financing 02 February 2016On Monday, 1 February a beautifully designed and accessible book appeared about two centuries of student financing and apprenticeship in the Netherlan...
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New editions of the Journal of Sonic Studies 26 January 2016How can we understand the impact and importance of sound?
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An academic perspective on the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos 20 January 2016Today over 1000 chief executives and more than 40 world leaders meet in the Swiss village Davos to discuss the world's issues of today. What is the im...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic ...
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The city as a mine has the future 16 January 2016In an (Dutch) interview with the regional Leiden newspaper “Leidsch Dagblad”, Ruben Huele and Ester van der Voet talk about the recently started proje...
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Deltaplan for Dutch Mathematics presented 07 January 2016A week before Christmas, the Deltaplan for Dutch Mathematics was presented to Hans de Groene (director NWO) and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (chairman Platfor...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Erik Bähre 05 January 2016Anthropologist Erik Bähre has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on the morality of life insurance.
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Book: The Colours of Energy 16 December 2015Huub de Groot is one of the 55 authors for the book The Colours of Energy. The book consists of Essays on the Future of Energy in Society in which lea...
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How killer -T-cells migrate towards virus-infected cells 01 December 2015
Joost Beltman (LACDR, Leiden University) has provided novel insights in the way T cells migrate towards virus-infected cells. This was accomplished b...
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Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70 19 November 2015
The Hague Project Peace & Justice, in cooperation with Dr. Alanna O’Malley of the Leiden University Institute for History, organized a one-day confere...
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot' 02 November 2015
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through ...
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Elsevier: Mathematics in Leiden best education according to researchers 07 October 2015Research from weekly magazine Elsevier shows that both the Leiden bachelor Wiskunde as the master Mathematics are rated as the best educational progra...
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Leiden Classics: Einstein & Friends 25 September 2015
Museum Boerhaave commemorated the hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity with the exhibition ‘Einstein & Friends’. The exhib...
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Interview Richard Gill about quantum experiment 16 September 2015In the weekly magazine “Mare” from Leiden University, an interview with the Leiden statistics prof. dr. Richard Gill has been published recently about...