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18 April 2013  
 
 
 
 
 
  Leiden University College student wins ECHO Award
Leiden University College The Hague student Sass Rogando Sasot has won the 2013 ECHO Award. 'Sass is truly a peaceful activist. She will be a role model for students in and beyond the Netherlands.'
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  Leiden's links with the Dutch royal family
Both the future King Willem-Alexander and current Queen Beatrix studied in Leiden. Leiden even has a member of the House of Orange to thank for its original foundation. Leiden academics are specialists in the history of the Royal House. Alumni gather in circles around the royal couple. To mark the succession, here are a few examples of Leiden's bonds with the Royal House.
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  Overall learning experience and academics' English in Leiden rated best in Netherlands
Students rank the overall learning experience in Leiden and the English of Leiden academics as the best in the Netherlands, according to the latest International Student Barometer. ‘Another excellent result. It confirms we are on the right track,’ commented Vice-Rector Simone Buitendijk.
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  How does a nuclear physicist become a dementia expert?
Serge Rombouts, Professor of Cognitive Neuro-imaging, works at Leiden University, both at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and at the LUMC: a perfect combination of his two specialist fields. He has been awarded a Vici grant for research on early-stage dementia.
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  Growing Greek interest in Leiden
The number of Greek students in Leiden is growing fast. The biggest Greek newspaper Ta Nea sent a journalist to see what Leiden has to offer to Greek students. ‘Leiden is not chaotic like our own Greek universities. Here we finally get around to studying.’
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More news
Searching for a solution to the Nicaraguan riddle
Jos Schaeken new Dean of Leiden University College The Hague
‘I didn't do any self-censorship'
Young researchers with a Rubicon grant going abroad
Urologists should ask patients about sexual abuse
Leiden University participates in Cyber Security Academy

  Leiden through the eyes of...
'In the Netherlands I feel much freer to be whoever I want to be'
 

  International students
Scholarships for LERU BRIGHT Conference 2013
The true Istanbul feeling
Medicine Honours Class: eat first then talk food
Read VOX, the international student publication run by students, for students
 

  International staff
P&O News 9 April 2013
Social sciences and humanities address Europe's social challenges
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus partnership a step further    
 

  Laureates
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts film makes it to Cannes
Stans Prize 2012 awarded to Kirstine Schiebel and Pietro Galgani
Leiden student Uroš Alexander Košenina wins prestigious Geoff Masel Aviation Law Prize
 

  Books
Erik Zürcher: 'Turkey. A Modern History' now in nine languages 
'The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration', edited by Marlou Schrover
 

 
  Coming events
9 March-23 June: Exhibition 'World Treasures! From Cicero to Erwin Olaf'
23 April: Lecture by Dr Marcin Trybulec (Lublin, Poland) on Media Philosophy
25 April: Round table on 'Asian Modernities, Global Interactions and the Question of Gender'
25 April: Mexican Studies Conference 2013  
2 May: Lecture 'Oh Suzannah! Longing for the virtuous lady in Literature, Religion, Art and Music'
13-14 May: Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires
16-17 May: Conference 'Exploring Leadership Roles for Local Peace and Global Justice'
29 May: Ewine van Dishoeck to give Halley Lecture in Oxford
More events
 

  Blogs
Leiden Law Blog: Giving a voice to kids online
Leiden Psychology Blog: Brain scars  
Sara Polak blogs about the image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
 

 
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