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Alumnus Charlotte Poot developed a hospital app for children 14 February 2024Charlotte Poot (31) is co-founder and chair of Hospital Hero, an app that prepares children for a hospital visit. She studied and obtained her PhD at ...
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Leiden University to limit fossil fuel ties 13 February 2024Leiden University no longer wishes to collaborate with fossil fuel partners that are not demonstrably committed to achieving the Paris Agreement targe...
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International news platform seeks Leiden academics with a good story 13 February 2024Would you like to share your academic research with a diverse international audience? On the not-for-profit news platform The Conversation, academics ...
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Open and free peer review? Here's how 13 February 2024Are you looking for a free and transparent way to submit your scientific articles for peer review? Then look no further than Peer Community In (PCI). ...
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund 13 February 2024From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to div...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis 08 February 2024How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Helping people live healthier lives? A game may be the answer 07 February 2024The LUMC, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences want to help health professionals support behaviour change in the population....
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Science on Insta: are influencers helping get young women (back) into reading? 07 February 2024Dutch influencers like Romy Boomsma and Nina Pierson have a huge following on Instagram and are increasingly sharing book tips there. Researcher Aafje...
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‘The goal is that we no longer have to talk about open science because all science is open’ 06 February 2024Paul Wouters has been involved in open science for 30 years, from his first introduction to a preprint server in 1992 to his recent roles as Dean of t...
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Dutch Student Orchestra celebrates female composer: 'Deserve to be heard' 05 February 2024Every year in February, ninety students who love making music come together in Someren, a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Through rehears...