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International recognition for our 'Leiden did not forget you' days 30 August 2024The Alumni Office is happy and proud: the 'Leiden did not forget you' days of spring 2023 have won an award from the Council for Advancement and Suppo...
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ 30 August 2024In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today...
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The Dutch government wants to declare an asylum crisis, but what does that mean? 29 August 2024More people seeking asylum, overcrowded asylum accommodation and asylum procedures that take years because of a lack of capacity. The current governme...
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Recent Labour Law LLM graduate publishes article 29 August 2024Rose Horstman adapted her master’s thesis and published an article on the impact of an employee’s age in just and equitable compensatory award decisio...
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Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean? 29 August 2024PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa 29 August 2024In 2017 Enya Séguin graduated with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Leiden University College (LUC). Her interest in global public health le...
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Graduation ceremony BSc Security Studies: 'Look beyond your own beliefs' 28 August 2024On Monday, August 26, there was a big party at Wijnhaven for the graduates of the BSc Security Studies. Among other things, a blue carpet was rolled o...
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Graduation Ceremony of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights 2023-2024 28 August 2024On Friday 23 August 2024, the Academy Building of Leiden University was filled with celebration as the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Childre...
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Partner organisations in Leiden: ‘Leadership is responding to the needs of others’ 27 August 2024An important part of the Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) is the practical assignment that students are given by a partner organisation. How does thi...
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Smart data for sustainable agriculture: less hassle, more green 27 August 2024In supermarkets, consumers are drowning in a sea of sustainability labels. Confusing for them, but also farmers can't see the forest for the trees. Ob...
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Sign up for the Opening of the Academic Year on 2 September 27 August 2024The Opening of the Academic Year 2024 will be held in Pieterskerk on Monday 2 September. This year’s theme is ‘Science for Policy’. Students, staff an...
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL 26 August 2024With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden. During this introduc...
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RARE-NL: LUMC joins consortium to find treatments for rare diseases 26 August 2024RARE-NL, a new collaboration between university hospitals, hopes to find treatments for rare diseases. Professor Teun van Gelder is representing the L...
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Wim Voermans wins 2023 Book of the Year at University of Texas School of Law 26 August 2024Wim Voermans' recent book ‘The Story of Constitutions’ takes an interdisciplinary approach in attempting to understand how constitutions come about an...
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America 26 August 2024In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position...