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17 April 2018

Sustainable demolition of old laboratories at a glance
Leiden University is demolishing a number of old laboratories atthe Faculty of Science in a sustainable way. The Dutch Green Building Council, an organisation that seeks to ensure sustainable construction and demolition, awarded this approach four stars.

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Universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam aiming to work together on cooperation with China

What are the oppportunities in China for researchers at the universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam? 

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‘Hetero norm is deeply rooted, including among LGBT people’

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been socialised in line with hetero norms, says Prof. Jojanneke van der Toorn.

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Language and belonging in the 21st century

What does it take to truly be ‘one of us’ and what role does language play in this process?

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The Facebook scandal: guidance and tips

Facebook data on tens of millions of users have been leaked. Does this mean the end of Facebook?

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Crucial Dutch contribution to European X-ray telescope

The Leiden Sterrenwacht is contributing to the development of an X-ray camera and spectrograph for the new European space telescope Athena.

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More than 3,000 years of human activity in 5 square metres!
 
Spin-off from astronomy: measuring water pollution with your mobile
 
Worldwide degradation of land use and nature threatens prosperity and well being
 
Using gold particles to make the invisible visible
 
Rumination leads to problems in boys with autism
 
How to easily measure your health
All news articles of Leiden University
 
 
 
 
View from abroad
 
Students on expedition to Borneo
 
 
International students
 
Make your voice heard! Vote during the University elections
Students learn about the EU from the inside out
Mentor Gonny Hauwert: ‘Your first job doesn’t have to be an instant hit!'
Join the Sustainable Business Battle
The Campus Cup: register for Sports Tournament for International Students
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International staff
 
This week it’s the University Elections: make your voice heard!
The Kattekop again voted best childcare centre in South Holland
Fill in the Personnel monitor
Knowledge lab about the city of the future: call for projects
Cyber criminality: recognise and report phishing
Deadline Individual Choices Model: 30 April
 
 
Coming events
 
18 April: Humanities Career Event
19 April: Lecture Leiden Deaf Studies Lecture
21 April: Thinking Planet Festival (Utrecht) 

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This month in The Hague
 
18 April: Campus The Hague Career Event
18 April: Hazelhoff Guest Lecture ‘IOSCO: A Global Standard Setting Body in a Changing Financial World’
19 April: Lecture by Jens Stoltenburg NATO Secretary-General 'Adapting NATO to a changing world' (full)
19 April: Lecture 'Anti-Muslim Hatred and the Normalization of Racism'
20 April: Symposium ‘Framing Artistic Practice’
 
 
Laureates
 
19 mln subsidy to develop electron microscopy in the Netherlands
Three projects involving Leiden researchers receive NWO award for high-grade research facilities
Bas van Rijn wins the Cornelis Tiele MA Thesis Award 2018
Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative
Carsten de Dreu awarded ERC Advanced Grant for research on conflicts between groups
All laureates
 
 
Books
 
The Politics of Borders. Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11
The publication of Domestic Homicide; a much-needed synthesis of the literature on domestic homicide
 
 
Leiden blogs
 
Leiden Psychology Blog: Questions to a student with autism
Leiden Law Blog: Human Rights Going Local
 
 
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