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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis08 February 2021No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies ...
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Digital education: what’s working well and what can we improve?02 February 2021Nearly a year since the abrupt switchover to mostly online learning, the Digital Education seminar gave teaching staff the opportunity to review their...
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship22 January 2021Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that ...
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector19 January 2021Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward18 January 2021A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University13 October 2020Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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‘Let knowledge flow through the neighbourhoods!’17 September 2020Leiden during corona, loneliness in the elderly or making the city more sustainable. Students from Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied ...
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Carel Stolker: ‘Young researchers, you’re not alone’22 June 2020Young researchers have been particularly affected by the coronavirus measures. They’re concerned about whether they’ll get their PhD or postdoc projec...
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‘We will offer a warm welcome to our students, both in person and online’17 June 2020The University buildings are partially reopening to students. And first-years will be able to discover real-life Leiden or The Hague during the introd...
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In the media: Rector Carel Stolker on the new academic year07 May 2020How is Leiden University doing in these times of corona, and what kind of new academic year can we expect? Rector Carel Stolker was interviewed by Dut...
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‘The sun never sets on our university'30 April 2020Leiden University has partnerships in the local region, in the Netherlands, in Europe and with countries on almost all the world's continents. Student...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day14 February 2020Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Rector Stolker: ‘Give chance a chance’28 January 2020What does Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker think about subjects such as student stress, ‘clean’ transcripts and the onward march of the English languag...
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5 FGGA lecturers awarded Senior Teaching Qualification16 December 2019With the end of the year coming to a close, it is time for a celebration. Twenty driven lecturers, among them 5 academic staff members of the Faculty ...
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Twenty lecturers awarded Senior Teaching Qualification12 December 2019It was time for a celebration in the Faculty Club on 11 December. Twenty driven lecturers were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification by Vice-Rec...