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19 September 2017

Festive opening of Asian Library by Queen Máxima
On 14 September Queen Máxima symbolically opened Leiden’s new Asian Library. In a Pieterskerk filled with international guests, the queen received the new and richly illustrated book about the special collections of the Asian Library.

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Spinoza Prizes for physicist Michel Orrit and psychologist Eveline Crone

Of this year’s four NWO Spinoza Prizes, two have been awarded to Leiden researchers: Eveline Crone and Michel Orrit.

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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year

One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place.

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How Neanderthals made the very first glue

The world’s oldest known glue was made by Neanderthals. But how did they make it 200,000 years ago?

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Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize

Florian Schneider has earned the title of Leiden University Lecturer of the Year. Sinologist Schneider was nominated by his students.

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Farewell interview with Ton Dietz as director of the African Studies Centre Leiden
 
A thousand new students discover The Hague
 
HoloLens app brings mixed reality to teaching in Leiden
 
Poems in sign language
 
Half a million euros to develop better and cheaper MRI scanners
 
What does a pilot know about fear of flying?
 
The Ethiopian wolf: respected and threatened by local cattle farmers
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Leiden through the eyes of...
 
Our new international students
 
 
International students
 
Ready for an adventure? Sign up now for the Study Abroad Festival!
LExS: a scholarship for excellent students
Value of your grades in other countries
New website for prospective master's students
Meet us in your country
 
 
International staff
 
No book transport on Budget Day (19 September) & Library services changes due to Leidens Ontzet (3 October)
Calling all staff with a bicultural and international background: a university network?
 
 
Coming events
 
20 September - Debate on Stereotypical role patterns in children's books
20 September - Lecture Mujarewali: Courtesans and their art of seduction
21 September - Just Peace Festival 2017
23 September - Voice4Thought Festival: Digital Radicalisation
30 September - Un/Divided Conference on diversity and inclusion
 
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This month in the Leiden Asia Year
 
25-29 September - Summer school: Asian Food, History, Anthropology, Sociology
28 September - Debate on Good Governance in Asia and the West: What is the Difference?
4 October - Lecture Gandhinama: Mahatma Gandhi’s personal and public life
 
 
Laureates
 
Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award
Dr Julia Cramer wins the NWO Minerva Prize for 2017
 
 
Research in the spotlight
 
Exploring the universe
 
 
Book
 
Voyage of Discovery. Exploring the Collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University (Ed. Alexander Reeuwijk)
 
 
Leiden blogs
 
Leiden Law Blog: Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc.

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