Alumni Newsletter November 2020
Universiteit Leiden


Alumni News

December 2020
Christmas time in Leiden
 

Pandemics: Survival of the ‘most anxious’?

When people in movies shake hands or crowd into elevators, do you think 'No! Keep back!'? Marieke Tollenaar does. And it’s not just her. Apparently the Corona-induced fear of human contact is already wired in our brains. In this pandemic, will it be a case of survival of the most anxious?

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Pandemics: Survival of the ‘most anxious’?
 

How Clinical Technology will change healthcare

In response to the potential lack of hospital ventilators for the huge numbers of Covid-19 patients, Clinical Technology students designed an emergency device in the space of just three weeks. ’These students become 80% doctor and 80% engineer.’


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How Clinical Technology will change healthcare
 

Skype a Scientist


Skype a Scientist is an online platform that matches scientists with classrooms and families around the world. PhD candidate Archaeology Maia Casna holds online sessions to talk about science and her research project during the lockdown. 'I am sure that Skype a Scientist is building up the next generation of scientists.'

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Skype a Scientist
 
Roméo Dallaire
 

More news

› Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals 
› Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga appointed Assistant Professor at eLaw
› The hotel industry in time of the Coronavirus
› In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck
› Africa Knows! transformed into a three-month online event
› Prehistoric hunters from the North Sea used human bones as weapons
› Bacteria that degrade plastic 
› Researcher Marte Luesink: ‘I’ve always been interested in crisis situations.’
› UN Youth Delegate Dennis Jansen: 'We live as if there are ten earths'
› Jorrit Rijpma on Frontex and Greece’s illegal return of migrants
› Campus The Hague presents ambitious plans to Mayor Van Zanen
› Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant
› No need to be scared; appealing to fear to change behavior
› Outside the MusicBox - podcast

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Events

› Florence Nightingale Colloquium presents Cees Snoek
  18 December 2020 - Online
› Multilingualism in old songs from the Low Countries
  18 December 2020 - Online
› Maintaining order: public prosecutors in post authoritarian countries, the case of Indonesia
  21 January 2021 - PhD Defence F. Afandi
› Children’s Rights Moot Court
   9-11 June 2021 - Online
› Conference on Extradition and Surrender
   24-25 June 2021 - Leiden

› All events
 

Life long learning

› The arbitration of international disputes 
   Starts 11 January 2021 - MOOC
› Guide to the international tribunals and courts in The Hague  
   Starts 8 February 2021 - MOOC

› All Leiden MOOCs
(MOOC: Massive Open Online Course)
 

Recent books & publications

› Leiden University Press Publications
› Leiden University Libraries
 
Alumni Benefits & Services
 
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