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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler 11 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 2022I 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 week 30 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 conference 05 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 tradition 30 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 University 28 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 ...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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Executive Board column: Hester Bijl on research and the pressure to win funding 05 April 2022
Giving lectures, marking exams, essays or theses, supervising students and PhDs, doing research and, as if that wasn’t enough, also trying to raise th...
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Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl on Palestine event: ‘Let’s have an academic debate with room for different perspectives’ 21 March 2022There’s been a lot of commotion about the ‘Apartheid in Israel’ panel discussion being cancelled. The organisers, Students for Palestine, wanted to h...
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Grand opening of POPcorner The Hague 17 February 2022With an opening speech, a panel discussion on the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven and a push on the red button outside the building itself, POPcorner The H...
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting 08 February 2022‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the n...