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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis08 February 2023The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came u...
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Executive Board column: ChatGPT, threat or opportunity?07 February 2023ChatGPT, the text-generating chatbot, has recently become available for anyone to use. Some people are thrilled, but others less so. In the past few w...
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Rector Magnificus presented with long list of missing Iranians14 December 2022Hester Bijl, the Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, was handed a ‘shockingly long list’ of names of missing Iranians in her office at the Adminis...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa25 November 2022‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Executive Board column: My concerns about the increased harassment of academics07 November 2022
Academics increasingly face threats, intimidation and abuse. The WetenschapVeilig platform has been launched to address this. Academics who are being ...
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler11 October 2022Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian governmen...
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Executive Board column: How can we deal with hate speech?26 September 2022
I was disgusted by the recent Ongehoord Nederland broadcast on 15 September. The racist and hateful comments made by alumna Raisa Blommesteijn were, a...
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Executive Board column: Limiting the intake of international students?12 September 2022Several Dutch universities have said they do not want foreign student numbers to grow any more in some of their degree programmes. They are reaching m...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’05 September 2022The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times...
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Minister Dijkgraaf visits OWL international introduction week30 August 2022On Monday, Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf attended the start of Orientation Week Leiden (OWL), the introduction week for...
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Executive Board column: Energy and new insights at the strategic conference05 July 2022
It’s become somewhat of a tradition at Leiden University: the strategic conference at the end of June each year. About a hundred staff including the f...
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition30 June 2022After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was bu...
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep?24 May 2022
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforc...
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LERU conference in Leiden: ‘Universities steer society through storms’17 May 2022The League of European Research Universities (LERU) was launched in Leiden 20 years ago. This anniversary will be celebrated with a major conference (...
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Lorentz Center to receive structural support from NWO and Leiden University28 April 2022The Lorentz Center is a melting pot that is visited by researchers from around the world. ‘Miracles happen’ during the five-day interactive workshops ...