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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council10 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 euros09 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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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales15 December 2022Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers...
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana21 October 2022Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the proje...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation20 October 2022Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduc...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list06 October 2022The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for t...
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New front office of Leiden University in Jakarta opened01 September 2022Last July, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University's Executive Board, opened t...
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Winners of Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship 202226 August 2022Earlier this year, the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute announced a new fellowship: The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship. The fellow...
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana18 August 2022From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access20 June 2022Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access an...
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Exhibition Books that made history31 May 2022From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round)19 May 2022With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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‘Stolpersteine’ at the University Library to commemorate Leiden war victims28 March 2022Two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in front of the University Library in memory of the Jewish Cosman family. At the time of the Sec...
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UBL acquires rare Chinese Miao album28 March 2022Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...
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Large-format landscapes: why Northern-Netherlandish artists drew on extra-large paper outdoors17 March 2022In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Northern-Netherlandish artists drew outdoors to train their hands and eyes, and to record landscapes and nature. ...