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Speed-daters in search of friendship: ‘I have just about everything, except friends’
Dating to find a new partner is perfectly normal, but admitting that you’re looking for friendship is a much more sensitive subject. Participants in a so-called friendship speed-dating event are trying to break that taboo. ‘There are many students who feel lonely.’
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Nijmegen is banning the far-right GNSV. Why isn’t Leiden?
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‘Israeli company no longer participating in Horizon project’
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FGGA asks: which holidays should count as days off?
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House of Orange under scrutiny: ‘The King has shown moral leadership’, says Gert Oostindie
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Security services warn universities: GNSV is far-right extremist
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These students made a film in Kyiv (and spent their nights in a bomb shelter)
Four Leiden students travelled to Kyiv to make a documentary about Ukrainian artists from occupied territories. But that also meant sleeping in a bomb shelter. ‘We simply waited out the air raids.’
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Israel deserves to be a pariah state, says genocide expert (and former IDF soldier) Omer Bartov
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Quantum plumbers know: nothing works in the lab. ‘You should be proud of your mistakes’
In an advanced measurement hall, Leiden physicists are attempting to unify quantum mechanics and gravity. However, the reality of groundbreaking research also involves endless tinkering – and sometimes mopping up. ‘When people think of physics, they tend to picture equations where everything works out exactly. But in reality, it’s not that simple.’
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The taboo surrounding HIV infections in Indonesia mainly harms women: ‘You are a bad person’
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University continues to collaborate with Israel, including with a company in occupied territory
Six months after the introduction of a new policy on collaborations with Israeli institutions, LUMC is still involved in at least three projects that have not been assessed, including one with a company in the West Bank.
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‘Protest is part of Pride’, say SP and PvdD. ‘It’s not just a fun party’
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Legal experts warned against ethnic profiling
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Why was the university absent from Canal Pride? ‘If students aren’t allowed to protest, we won’t join in’
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