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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop 01 May 2024
From Soledad Acosta de Samper and Albalucía Angel to Hazel Robinson Abrahams and Amalialú Posso Figueroa. During the Symposium & Workshop Experience a...
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Scouring the brain for causes of psychiatric illnesses 01 May 2024
What happens in the brains of people with psychiatric illnesses? With a €23.23 million gravity grant, scientists from different fields will search for...
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles 30 April 2024
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky...
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent' 30 April 2024
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that yo...
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Niels Blokker and Brian McGarry organise INTERPOL centenary conference 30 April 2024
Professor Niels Blokker, Schermers Chair and Professor of International Institutional Law, and Dr Brian McGarry, Assistant Professor of Public Interna...
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A successful Law, AI & Digitalisation meetup 30 April 2024
On 19 March, Leiden Law School hosted the first Law, AI & Digitalisation Meetup, a collaborative initiative organised by the departments of Public Law...
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Surprise: No methane on the night side of exoplanet WASP-43b 30 April 2024
The night side of exoplanet WASP-43b, to the surprise of astronomers, does not appear to contain methane. It is likely that extreme winds do not allow...
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Panel event: 'The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?' 29 April 2024
The European Integration cluster at the Institute of Political Science and the Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation hosted a p...
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype 29 April 2024
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about ...
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Leiden University represents the Netherlands in 2024 Jessup International Rounds 29 April 2024
On 16 February, Leiden University participated in the Dutch National Rounds of the 2024 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the...
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A computational tool that will transform bacterial genome analysis 26 April 2024
Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intui...
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Student tower opened with café, common room and spectacular views 26 April 2024
The 289 students who recently moved into the tower on Kolffpad at the Leiden Bio Science Park are sitting pretty. They have the keys to a self-contain...
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Remarkable achievement: Leiden professor appointed AAAS Fellow 26 April 2024
Carlo Beenakker has been appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the organisation behind the journal Sci...
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Leiden University starts dismissal procedure against professor on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour 25 April 2024
A professor from Leiden University, together with a former employee (who is also the professor’s partner), has been guilty of long-term unacceptable a...
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15th Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition (18-20 April 2024) 25 April 2024
Leiden’s International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) was delighted to co-organise the 15th edition of the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law ...