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Tracers that light up tumours help surgeons
How do surgeons avoid causing nerve damage or leaving cancerous cells behind? An interdisciplinary research group at the LUMC hopes to improve operations and make them less invasive with the aid imaging techniques. They are working with medical companies to make these techniques widely available.
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Why search engines and chatbots are becoming more alike
Search engines are getting better at answering our questions. And chatbots are increasingly likely to search the internet for relevant sources. ‘Search engines and chatbots will become more closely entwined’, says Professor Suzan Verberne.
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Getting students away from screens... and into the landscape
Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…
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Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor
PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate how child labor shaped the bones of Dutch children between the 17th and 19th centuries. Using CT scans, she aims to build a more comprehensive picture of…
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Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks appointed Academy Professor
Wil Roebroeks, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology in Leiden, is to be awarded the ‘Academy Professors Prize’ of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Roebroeks has drastically changed academic thinking about the behaviour of early hominins and our knowledge of the earliest colonisation…
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Sjoerd van Trigt: ‘Rowing is how I relax.'
When Sjoerd van Trigt, a student of International Studies, is not in the lecture hall, you can find him at Rowing Club Asopos de Vliet. He trains there seven times a week. Soon, he will be leaving for a six-month stay in Japan.
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Temple culture in Ptolemaic Egypt alive and kicking
Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven. Temple culture was very much alive and kicking. PhD defence 16 February.
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What you see is not what you get: the importance of what you don't see
Cultural anthropologist Sabine Luning, cultural historian Paul van de Laar and professor of architecture and urban development history Carola Hein say that the things that are not shown in images are also worth studying.
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Alumna Minke Lok: ‘Millions of people hear my work’
Alumna Minke Lok (26) programmes many announcements in various languages at almost all major airports in Europe, including at Schiphol. ‘Millions of people around the world hear what I create.’
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime
Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police and an enthusiastic Mayor Lenferink. The conclusions call for a new approach, said Lenferink.
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Leaving the National Museum of Antiquities after forty years: ‘I will be taking a gap year first’
On 14 May, curator and professor Ruurd Halbertsma will be leaving the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) after forty years of dedicated service. In fact, it will be a double farewell: Venusval (‘Venus trap’), the last part of his trilogy about Tjalling Kingma, the fictional curator of the classical…
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From Steno to Snickers: the Anthropocene through the eyes of a coot
What looked like an ordinary coot’s nest turned out to be a five-star location with a remarkable backstory. Beneath a jetty on the Rokin in Amsterdam, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra discovered a true time capsule — complete with face masks from the COVID era and a Mars wrapper dating back to the 1994…
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Persian poetry knows no frontiers
The Persian language and its poetry are intertwined with the history of Central Asia. Although some mediaeval poets were later claimed by an individual state, their influence knew no frontiers. This is what Gabrielle van den Berg, Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia, argues in her…
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From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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Leiden University may open new building in the centre of The Hague
The Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University and CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) will together try to realise a University building in the former Hudson’s Bay premises at Grote Marktstraat 48-50/Spui 3. This will facilitate the growth of Campus The Hague. A cooperation agreement was signed…
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Celebrate free access: Public Domain Day 2026
At the start of the new year, we celebrate the release of a new selection of collection items into the Public Domain. This year, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is making approximately eight hundred items freely downloadable via Digital Collections.
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Adventures of a NWIB Visiting Professor in Cairo
Since mid-October Marina de Regt (VU Amsterdam) resides at NVIC as our 2025 NWIB Visiting Professor. Nearing the end of her time in Egypt, she shares here her experiences of the past months.
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Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)
We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden between 14-16 September 2026.
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Van Marum Colloquium: NiOOH-Catalyzed Glucose and Other Organic Molecule Electrooxidations
Lecture
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Matrilineal Islam
PhD defence
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Sea level rise and a Florida mortuary pond
PhD defence
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Reports
Overview of the CML reports
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Computational speedups and learnability in quantum machine learning
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Saxophone Without Mouthpiece
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Advanced MRI-markers of cerebral small vessel disease
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Empirical Analysis of Social Insurance
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To image or to imagine
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Insights into the neural and affective signatures of connectedness between parents and adolescents
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Modeling vascular disease using self-assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell derivatives in 3D vessels-on-chip
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Targeting tumors using T-cell receptor gene transfer
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Urban Systems in the Roman Near East
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Cognitive training and dynamic testing in the school domain
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Untangling Cosmic Collisions
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Pandbelening
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Speaking the same language: De invoering van de Anglo-Amerikaanse trust in het Nederlandse recht
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Heteronormativity and Gender Norms
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Zorginkoopovereenkomst
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Breaking the Ice: Constraining the volatile distribution in protoplanetary disks
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Van liefdadigheid naar abortusstrijd. Leidse vrouwen en de Nederlandse vrouwenbeweging van 1860 tot 1990.
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Cardiovascular risk stratification on cardiac computed tomography angiography
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Thromboinflammation in high-risk human populations
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DNA-encapsulated silver clusters as a multi-functional tool for applications in physics, biology and medicine
PhD defence
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A New Feeling of Unity: Decolonial Black Power in the Dutch Atlantic (1968-1973)
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Bridging the gap, Pelvic floor physical therapy in the treatment of chronic anal fissure
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Harnessing neoantigens for targeted cancer treatment
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Procederende belangenorganisaties in de polder
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A managerial perspective on value-based healthcare
PhD defence