Newsletter

19 December 2016

Online magazine on diversity and inclusiveness
How can we make sure that everyone feels welcome at our university? Read the highlights from the symposium on The Making of an Inclusive Leiden University: The Do’s and Don’ts.

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Two-pronged attack on infectious diseases

A combination of two potential drugs gives hope of a 'super blockage' of an over-active immune system, Leiden researchers report in Nature.

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Digging up new information from ancient Chinese texts

How were ideas about politics and society distributed in ancient China? Hilde De Weerdt investigates this using new digital methods.

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Leiden University has highest ratio of female professors

Leiden University has the highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch Universities. At 24 per cent, Leiden is well ahead of the other uni...

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Frank Dikötter to receive honorary doctorate at Dies Natalis 2017

Historian Frank Dikötter will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for his work on the history of the Chinese Republican period and th...

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Launch meeting Leiden Islam Academy: gathering knowledge and meeting people

The Leiden Islam Academy, launched  on 7 December, combines research and teaching on Islam.

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More news
 
2017: Leiden Asia Year. Let's have your ideas!
 
The magic of projection
 
Collaborating on big data to unravel disease processes
 
Leiden University to partner with Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
 
Giant galaxies grow out of cold cosmic oceans
 
Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China
 
Chimpanzees recognise one another from their rear ends
 
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Leiden Classics
The life and library of Johannes Thysius
My favourite spot
Rachel Quennell: One for the coffee lovers!
International students
Bachelors’ programmes Information Days
Changes in master's starting September 2017
International staff
P&O  News 6 December
A gift from a business contact? Things to bear in mind
Ice skating: special 2 for 1 tickets for expats
Coming events
21 December:  Studium Generale lecture ‘Fortress Europe needs its citizens’
11-14 January: 2nd Leiden-Beijing Conference in Philosophy
19-20 January: Workshop 'Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements'
20 January: NISIS Islamic Studies Network Day
26-27 January: LUCAS 2017 Graduate Conference - Landscape: Interpretations, Relations, and Representations
 
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Laureates
Psychometric Society Career Award for Willem Heiser
KHMW Graduation Prize for Anne Meeussen
Leonard Blussé wins Special Book Award of China
Researchers from LACDR win 2016 Pharmaceutical Research Meritorious Manuscript Award
Van Bergen Prizes for English Waltz and other cultural expressions
Interdisciplinary project group wins Bouw Recycling Award
Leiden research in the spotlight
From data to insight
Books
Of jars and gongs, by Raymond Corbey
Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, editor-in-chief  Rint Sybresma
The Civic Citizens of Europe, by Moritz Jesse
The Future of Drone Use, edited by Bart Custers
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, edited by Ton Liefaard and Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Leiden blogs
Leiden Law Blog: Will the real you please stand up!
Leiden Safety and Security blog: New ISGA report: Destination Syria
Leiden Psychology Blog: Three reasons to vote
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