It’s been a turbulent year. Coronavirus turned the lives of our students and staff upside down. That is clear from the highlights and many reactions to our social media accounts this year.
At the end of the year we always compile a list of our most popular articles from that year. In 2020 one topic was at the forefront of everybody’s minds: coronavirus. Fortunately we had a few other stories too.
Leiden University’s Campus The Hague published its new strategy for the next ten years. Martijn Ridderbos, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, and Erwin Muller, Director of Campus The Hague, presented this to Jan van Zanen, Mayor of The Hague.
The world let Rwanda down at the time of the genocide. That must never happen again, said Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire in his online lecture on 26 November.
Kerstin Perez is Assistant Professor of Particle Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For people from minority groups this is by no means a common experience. Perez will explain how improvements can be made at our annual Diversity and Inclusion Symposium on 22 January 2021.
How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That’s the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Jasmijn Mioch, for instance, an HRM Learning & Development Adviser at Leiden University.
