Newsletter

22 January 2020

     
‘It will be much easier without the British’
The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on 31 January, at midnight Dutch time. Legal scholar Joris Larik from Leiden University College The Hague explains why he is not advocating remain.
 
 
 
‘There’s a difference between inclusion and change’

If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University’s annual Diversity Symposium.

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Genetic predisposition to social anxiety disorder measurable in the brain

We already knew that social anxiety disorder often affects more than one person in the same family. Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam has now shown that there is a genetic predisposition in the brain.

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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood

New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks: radical changes are in store for the Leiden Bio Science Park over the coming years.

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2019 Hall of fame

Many of our staff and students won prizes, were awarded a substantial grant or were appointed to an academic association or a position in public life in 2019.

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Tracers that light up tumours
 
Recommendations from the Student Well-Being Taskforce
 
How do you tell the story of eighteenth-century princesses?
 
Altruism in bacteria: colonies divide the work
 
Homelessness an issue for one in three prisoners
All news articles of Leiden University
 
Leiden through the eyes of...
 
Vivian Ng from Malaysia
 
International students
 
Problems with Remote Workplace and the website
Help to shape innovation in your own education
What should Leiden University look like in 2026? Share your perspective at Mission 2026!
Meet us in your country
Procrastination Workshop
 
International staff
 
Problems with Remote Workplace and the website
Students innovate education with university employees
'Why didn't I intervene?' Follow the workshop 'The active bystander'
 
Coming events
 
23 January Retrieving Cultural Heritage Conference (Leiden)
24 January Beat the Professor Pub Quiz (Leiden)
25 January Open Day at Royal Conservatoire (The Hague)
7 February 445th Dies Natalis
13 February: Alumni event in Brussels
All coming events
 
Laureates
 
Three writers win the Peter van Straaten Psychology Prize
Faculty prizes & New Year's speech
Collaborative International Research Grant for Dr Corey Williams
More awards
 
Books
 
Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands
 
Leiden blogs
 
Leiden Psychology Blog: Extremely Shy & Genetically Close
Leiden Law Blog: Homophobic bias in conditions for donating blood
 
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