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15 March 2012  
 
 
 
 
  New visiting professorship on Georgia for Leiden
Leiden University is to have a visiting professorship on Georgian Languages, Cultures and Society. The official kick-off, organised in collaboration with the Georgian Embassy, will be held on Friday 23 March. One of the dignitaries present will be Sandra Roelofs, first lady of Georgia, who will be a member of the board of the professorship.
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  Strategic alliance Leiden, Delft and Erasmus. Greater than the sum of its parts.
Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam have set out their plans for collaboration in a joint memorandum entitled ‘Adding Value’.
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  The more resilient a society is, the less interesting it is for terrorists
Terrorist attacks are not an end in themselves, but a means of creating unrest and fear. Terrorism policies and research should focus more on managing fear and social unrest. This is the advice of Prof. Edwin Bakker in his inaugural lecture on 16 March.
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  Snorkeling for study credits in 'unique Honours Class'
A new Honours Class allows exceptional students to do research in Normandy into the origins of life. What is especially extraordinary is that the Honours Class is the product of a collaboration between the universities of Leiden, Utrecht and Amsterdam, and two museums. Dr Rinny Kooi of the Institute of Biology Leiden calls the class ‘unique’.
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  Indigenous population of Taiwan donates books to university
A cultural delegation from Taiwan has presented 175 books and journals to Leiden University. The gift is meant as thanks for all the research carried out by the university on the subject of the indigenous peoples of Formosa, as Taiwan was called in the past.
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  In search of the frontier between sound and language
Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is what Claartje Levelt, Carel ten Cate (Leiden University) and Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) are attempting.
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More news
Leiden University Rector Magnificus Paul van der Heijden leaving in 2013
Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library
Studying the mystery of the eel
Rare astronomical discovery: an ancient metropolis in the distant universe
Students and Turkish businesses celebrate 400 years of Netherlands-Turkey
Hope for diabetes patients

  View from abroad
'In San Francisco only top marks are good enough'
 

  International students
IND visits Leiden University
Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School
Spring time in the Mensa - weekly menus
New English-language master's programme in Criminal Law
 

  International staff
P&O News 6 March 2012
Tips from P&O for international staff
Leiden Expat Centre
 

  Coming events
16-17 March: International conference 'Interaction and Inland Seas in Global Perspective'
20 March: Open evening LUC The Hague
23 March: The Intellectual World of the Leiden Pliny: A Book from York?
26 March: Symposium 'Peter Mair - the political scientist'
26-30 March: Astronomy to inspire and educate young children
28 March: Louwe Kooijmans Lecture 2012
2 April: Second Annual Jean Monnet Conference
 
 

 
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