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Introducing: Kamila Smagulova 24 October 2024
Kamila Smagulova recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate, as part of Carolien Stolte's ERC project 'Reconciling Peace: Internatio...
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Introducing: Henrike Vellinga 24 October 2024
Henrike Vellinga recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate, as part of Carolien Stolte's VIDI project 'Peace Palms. International C...
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Introducing: Floris de Ruiter 24 October 2024
Floris de Ruiter recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate, as part of Carolien Stolte's VIDI project 'Peace Palms. International C...
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize 24 October 2024
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Oncode Accelerator funds preclinical development of cancer therapies 23 October 2024
Through its Demonstrator Projects, the Dutch Oncode Accelerator consortium provides grants for preclinical cancer therapy development. The first call ...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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These colleagues keep you safe: ‘Being an emergency responder is useful outside of work too’ 22 October 2024
Do you know what to do if a rubbish bin catches fire, a student takes ill or a colleague falls off their bike? Our emergency responders do. They are r...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024
‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Opinion: The message 'ready for the fight' in the Defence White Paper raises concerns. 21 October 2024
‘Strong, smart and together’ is the name of the recently published Defence White Paper, which is being debated in the House of Representatives along w...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024
Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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Reconnecting in Leiden, 15 years after graduation 17 October 2024
During the first weekend of October, a group of fourteen Master of Arts in European Union Studies alumni returned to the place it all began, 15 years ...
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Urban Studies students receive diploma: ‘I want to make cities better places’ 15 October 2024
Lecture hall A0.06 in the Schouwburgstraat in The Hague was packed with parents, friends and other loved ones on Friday, 27 September. No fewer than 6...
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How much time will it take to log my travel? This and other questions about the new mobility policy 15 October 2024
From 1 November we will have a new mobility policy and will track our commuting with an app. The new regulation is more sustainable and will also save...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day 15 October 2024
So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...