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Executive Board explores the option of appointing two vice-rectors 14 July 2026The Executive Board is exploring the option of appointing two part-time vice-rectors: one with a focus on teaching and the other with a focus on resea...
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‘Collaboration with all the institutions in the region is the only way to make a real impact on education’ 13 July 2026The Municipality of Leiden has awarded a grant to the Leiden Education Action Research Network (LEARN). Through this network, Leiden University will w...
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Leiden University to play key role in new EU-funded Una Europa project 13 July 2026Leiden University and its partners have been selected to receive European Commission funding for the two-year Una.Via project. Una.Via is the next ste...
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PhD candidates getting started with embodied learning: boxing as the bridge between head and body 13 July 2026In a well-lit room with big windows, ten young people stand in a circle. They are wearing sports clothes, black boxing gloves on their hands, their fo...
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Controllers’ Day 2026: looking to the future together 13 July 2026Controllers are the colleagues responsible for the university’s financial management and oversight. During Controllers’ Day at Spui Campus, the Financ...
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First impressions of the Una Europa General Assembly in Paris 09 July 2026The Una Europa General Assembly was held in Paris from 27 to 29 May and was hosted by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ranoe Sewrattan (Head of S...
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Leiden students work on the next generation of lab-grown mini organs 09 July 2026With a custom-designed protein and a strong team effort, Leiden's iGEM team hopes to improve organoids: tiny lab-grown organs that could advance resea...
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Kick-off event interfaculty theme Health & Well-being in september 08 July 2026On Monday 28 September, the interfaculty theme ‘Health and Wellbeing’ will hold a kick-off event for researchers and lecturers who would like to get i...
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Funding for AI and plant research, monitoring nature from space, and more 08 July 2026Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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Jasper’s Day – Science on the other side of the world 07 July 2026Jasper is in Singapore for a conference on advanced laser spectroscopy, the field in which he conducts research in Groningen. He meets fellow research...
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Urban nature expedition: 3,939 species found 07 July 2026In May and June, 2,636 residents of Leiden, Leiderdorp, Oegstgeest and Katwijk found 3,939 species of plants, animals and fungi. From oysters to orchi...
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Science under pressure in the US: Cultural scholar continues her research in Leiden 07 July 2026Growing political pressure and increasing restrictions on academic freedom forced Cultural Studies scholar Maisha Wester to leave her tenured research...
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Euclid spots dozens of quasars in the early universe 07 July 2026The Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 extremely distant quasars, breaking the distance record for this type of bright galactic nucleus. Powered...
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AI as a listening ear: helpful or risky? 06 July 2026More and more people are turning to AI when they feel stressed or worried. Researchers at Leiden University studied how and why people use chatbots fo...
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Astrophysicist collaborates on artwork that calculates the odds of your existence 06 July 2026‘Can we calculate, in one number, how impossible it is that I exist?’ Astrophysicist Yamila Miguel took this question by artist Thijs Biersteker serio...