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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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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’ 11 December 2023
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...
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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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Modified caffeine molecules help medical research move forward 08 December 2023
Before researchers can develop targeted drugs, they need to know exactly how a disease works. Biochemist Bert Beerkens created molecules that allow th...
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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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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes 05 December 2023
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet. PhD candid...
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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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Rozita Abdolrahimi Raeni wins KNMP Student Award 04 December 2023
Student Rozita Abdolrahimi Raeni is one of this year's winners of the KNMP Student Award. The Royal Dutch Society for the Advancement of Pharmacy (KNM...
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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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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...
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too 30 November 2023
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at th...
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Keuzegids consumer guide: six top programmes at Leiden University 30 November 2023
Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 Novembe...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons 28 November 2023
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western rememb...