News
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Archaeology Hall of Fame 2023 14 December 2023
Special achievements, grants and a top 10 ranking, a great calendar year for the Faculty of Archaeology! See the overview of 2023 in the hall of fame...
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UN Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’ 14 December 2023
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the...
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts 13 December 2023
Two researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology have received a grant from the Museums, Collections and Society (MSC) interdisciplinary programme. Thi...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’ 12 December 2023
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Textbooks not inclusive: roles are stereotypical, heterosexuality is the norm 11 December 2023
Mum works in healthcare, dad in engineering and everyone is straight: many textbooks still show men and women in stereotypical roles, PhD candidate Te...
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CAIRELab event results in three potential collaborations between AI experts and LUMC 11 December 2023
SAILS and CAIRELab, the LUMC’s AI expertise centre, recently held an event that gave healthcare professionals and computer scientists the chance to me...
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Purple Friday: ‘I try to give the community some support’ 08 December 2023
Purple clothing and a pride flag flying from all University buildings: Leiden University is once again taking part in Purple Friday. How do people exp...
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Galaxies have bipolar gas outflows far into intergalactic space 06 December 2023
For the first time, astronomers have observed in three dimensions that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upwards and downwards at high speed, far out ...
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Hunting of European straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago 06 December 2023
Finds uncovered in the east of Germany show that Neanderthals stored and preserved vast amounts of meat and/or temporarily aggregated in larger groups...
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First detailed picture of ice in planet-forming disk 06 December 2023
An international team of astronomers led by Ardjan Sturm of the Observatory has made the first two-dimensional inventory of ice in a planet-forming di...
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life 05 December 2023
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren o...
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Which MPs have Leiden roots? 05 December 2023
Twenty-two of the 150 newly elected members of the Dutch House of Representatives studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research here. But who...
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Jeroen Touwen joins Campus The Hague Board 01 December 2023
Jeroen Touwen officially joined the Campus The Hague Board on 28 November. Together with Jan Crijns, he has been responsible for the education portfol...
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Planet found too big for its parent star 01 December 2023
The discovery of a planet far too large for its sun defies models about the formation of solar systems and planets. In a paper in Science, researchers...
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Student mental health problems still common but less so than in covid year 2021 30 November 2023
The number of students suffering from stress and anxiety has decreased slightly compared with 2021. But around half still suffer from mental health pr...