Newsletter

16 October 2018

     
LGBT+ Network: a platform for the like-minded
Leiden University has a new platform. On 19 September Vice-Rector Hester Bijl officially launched the LGBT+ Network.

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Leiden strengthens collaboration with China

A delegation from Leiden University, headed by Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, was in China from 9 to 11 October.

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Fighting diseases with good bacteria

Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden have discovered how good intestinal bacteria regulate our innate immune system.

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Leiden Honorary Doctorates for Melissa Little and Robbert Dijkgraaf

Australian cell biologist Melissa Little and physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf will each be awarded an Honorary doctorate at Leiden's Dies Natalis.

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Inaugural lecture: Restrictions on freedom -the paradoxes of supervision

Types of supervision for prisoners on conditional release include the requirement to report regularly to a parole officer, and electronic house arrest.

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Additional efforts needed to avoid conflict in Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations aim to improve all issues simultaneously: social, economic, and environmental outcomes.

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Insulating phenomenon in superconductor
 
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Summary of Leiden University 2017 Annual Report now online
 
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A Universe aglow
 
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NIMAR organises study trip for teachers of Islam and citizenship
 
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Five new members of the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy
 
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Self-folding metamaterial
 
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Leiden Science Run collects over 10,000 euros for refugee students
 
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
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All news articles of Leiden University
 
Leiden Classics
 
200 years of archaeology in the Netherlands
 
Leiden students abroad
 
Making maths fun: volunteering in Africa
 
International students
 
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Open Day for international students: ‘I like the Leiden canals’
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Information Evening International Leiden Leadership Programme 5 November
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Studying safely: make sure you know what to do
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What's your idea for bringing Dutch and international students together?
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Shortage of student rooms in Leiden and The Hague
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Having doubts about your future? The Mentor Network can help!
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One young world through the eyes of Thomas Gevers and Jennifer Pfister
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There could be surprises at the Healthy University workshops
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Meet us in your country
 
International staff
 
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Accommodation wanted for international students
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There could be surprises at the Healthy University workshops
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What's your idea for bringing Dutch and international students together?
 

 
Coming events
 
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18 October: Lecture by Professor Ewine van Dishoeck
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18-19 October: PhDArts Conference
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29 October: Lecture ‘The Problem With Drug Discovery’
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All coming events
 
This month in The Hague
 
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18-19 October: One Young World congress
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29 October: Lecture 'The Good Country - A new approach to globalisation'
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30 October: Lecture ‘Police Killings in Self-Defence’
 
Laureates
 
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Carlo Beenakker receives honorary doctorate in Kiev
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Laura Heitman has received two awards at the EFMC-ISMC 2018
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Rob van Wijk wins oral presentations of National PhD Competition during FIGON Dutch Medicine Days
 
Books
 
The effects of anthropogenic noise

Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography

 
Leiden blogs
 
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Leiden Islam Blog: When is an Arab not an Arab?
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Leiden Law Blog: Why science needs spirituality
 
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