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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood 13 January 2020New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in O...
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’ 25 November 2019Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November...
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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’ 11 November 2019Her book ‘Veel valse hoop’ (Much False Hope) about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German his...
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‘Rembrandt has come home’ 04 November 2019Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. There are still numerous other activities such as lectures, the University...
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator 21 October 2019Emeritus professors Dirk van Delft and Frits Berends both channelled their inner Sherlock Holmes as they delved into the life and work of the great ph...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition 10 October 2019A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor 01 October 2019
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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Never too young to learn: Leiden University in the 3 October parade 30 September 2019For the first time ever, a float from Leiden University is taking part in the Grand Parade during the Relief of Leiden or Leidens Ontzet. October 3 is...
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer 23 September 2019He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy:...
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How Leiden became 'the wonder of Europe' 31 July 2019Curiosities from the anatomical theatre, swords from the fencing school and 17th-century portraits of the University's founders. The new University Ro...
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Exhibition looks at turbulent history of Njord rowing club 29 May 2019Antique wooden oars, hard-fought medals and iconic photos from rowing history. An exhibition at Oude UB spotlights key figures and moments from the 14...
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New Rembrandt Route takes in seven Leiden University buildings 13 May 2019Seven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...
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Exhibition Herstory: Leiden's Leading Ladies in the Oude UB 25 April 2019In all the 444 years since Leiden University was founded, almost nothing has been written about women at the University. That's why a group of 25 fema...
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Leiden psychology student is distant relative of Rembrandt 23 April 2019Benson van der Bij is a family member of Holland's most famous master: Rembrandt van Rijn. What does he think of this relationship? And did he know th...
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Hiltje Cleveringa given first copy of her father’s biography 17 January 2019Hiltje Cleveringa seemed moved when on 16 January she was given the first copy of the biography of her father, Rudolph Cleveringa. Peppering his speec...