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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a passionate speaker with a background in neuroscience 20 April 2023Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest is in applying neuroscience in eve...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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Discover our interdisciplinary research programmes - here's why 18 April 2023A large event will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 17 May, where all Leiden researchers can learn about the Leiden interdisciplinary research progr...
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Entrepreneurship at the university for an impact on society 18 April 2023Courses, business premises for startups or help applying for patents: there are many ways the university can help students or researchers with their b...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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Leiden did not forget you: Sign your name in the Sweat Room 14 April 2023Most young alumni who graduated during the COVID-19 pandemic did not get a graduation ceremony, nor did they have the chance to sign their name in the...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society 14 April 2023Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past 12 April 2023Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugu...
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Let’s talk more about adversity’ 04 April 2023How can we help our students build resilience and prevent unnecessary stress? And how do we break the taboo on failure? These and other questions are ...
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Greater job satisfaction thanks to a career coach: ‘All the puzzle pieces fell into place’ 04 April 2023You need not be completely miserable in your current job to start a discussion about your professional development. And if internal career coaching st...
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer 04 April 2023The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other? Bart Barendregt, Professor...
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy 30 March 2023At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy ...
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Regieorgaan Open Science officially launched as Open Science NL 29 March 2023Fifteen knowledge institutions and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science have signed the covenant for Open Science NL. Leiden University has ...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world 28 March 2023It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...