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Opening of The Hague
Institute for Global Justice
The
Hague Institute for Global Justice, in which Leiden University
is involved, was officially opened in the Ridderzaal in The
Hague on Friday 10 June. The aim of the institute, which is
starting with a grant of more than 17 million euros, is to
become a leading institute in the field of peace and law.
Madeleine Albright, the former United States Secretary of
State, is the chair of the Advisory Board.
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Penrose: seeking the limits
of quantum
World-famous
mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose is Lorentz
Professor 2011 at Leiden University. But his links with
Leiden go back much further than this. Together with Leiden
experimental physicists Dirk Bouwmeester and Tjerk Oosterkamp
he is seeking the limits of quantum mechanics.
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Moroccan-Dutch youths
display very Dutch emotions
Dutch
youths of Moroccan origin express their anger in the same way
as native Dutch teenagers. This ‘emotional integration’
applies equally to Moroccan-Dutch youths who identify with
Dutch culture and to those whose primary connection is with
the culture of their parents.
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Tibetan unravels myth about
founder of religion
Kalsang
Gurung is the first Tibetan to obtain his PhD in Leiden. He
carried out research into the accounts of Shenrab Miwo, the
founder of the Bön religion. Gurung demonstrates that these
accounts do not reflect historical reality. PhD defence: 31
May.
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