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Collaboration as theme of
opening of academic year Leiden University
There
will be no new funding for universities in the
Netherlands in the coming years. What is then the best
strategy for Dutch knowledge institutions and for Leiden
University in particular? 'Co-operation seems to be the best
option if we want to remain among the world's top players,'
were the words of President of the Executive Board, Paul van
der Heijden on 5 September during the opening of the academic
year at Leiden University.
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Scholarships for excellent
international students
‘Overwhelmed’,
‘very happy’, ‘a unique chance’ - enthusiastic responses from
the international students who have been awarded a
scholarship by Leiden University. With these
scholarships 45 excellent students from 26 different countries
can now take a master's programme in Leiden.
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9/11 has had strong
influence on research
The
attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon
in Washington changed the world. But what effect did they have
on academic research? Maurits Berger, Professor of Islam in
the Contemporary West, looks back on 10 years of
9/11.
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How galaxies expand by
absorbing gas clouds
Galaxies
expand by absorbing gas from their direct surroundings. But
astronomers are as yet unsure precisely how they do this.
Astronomer Joop Schaye has been awarded a European research
grant of 1.5 million euro to find out more.
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‘In Asia you are first and
foremost Chinese or Indian’
‘There
is often a strong emphasis on the differences with Asia when
actually there are so many similarities on all sorts of
levels. Parents in Asia deliberate just as much about which
school they should send their child to,’ says Frank Pieke,
Professor of Modern China Studies. The opening conference of
the Leiden multidisciplinary research profile of Asian
Modernities and Traditions takes place on 9
September.
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KWF Cancer Fund to subsidise
Leiden research into bladder cancer
Dr
Geertje van der Horst, Dr Rob Bevers and Dr Gabri van der
Pluijm of the Urology department at the Leiden University
Medical Center have been awarded a subsidy of € 550,000 by the
KWK Cancer Fund. 'Our application has been awarded the
maximum subsidy. We can now carry out unique research in the
field of cancer of the bladder.'
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