The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 26 new members. Three of them are Leiden professors: Luuk de Ligt, Lisa Cheng ...

Successful innovation requires more than technological progress alone. Every new concept must first be firmly anchored into an existing context. At le...

Three major research projects involving Leiden scientists have been awarded a grant from NWO’s Gravitation Programme. The projects are on innovation p...

Extinct hominin DNA extracted from >40,000 years old sediment

Joanita Vroom, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a DANS Klein DataProject (KDP) bursary for her project entitled ‘Data A...

How can the university forge closer connections with society? This is a question that is close to the heart of Willem te Beest, who retired as Vice-Pr...

Students were able to continue their studies in September 1945 after the University had been closed for several years during the Second World War. Thi...

More than a hundred people took part in the conference on Studying with a Disability on 20 April. Dozens of students shared their experiences. 'I woul...

Recently, the booklet 'Blended Learning, het versterken van het onderwijs op de Universiteit Leiden' has been launched. Sonja Wagenaar, educational ad...

300 hundred man went down with Dutch VOC vessel ‘de Rooswijk’ on January 9 1740 for the coast of Deal in the UK.

Leiden University now offers almost 20 Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The enthusiasm displayed by participants makes it rewarding to develop and...

In order to help you to make good pictures the faculty communication department prepared some guidelines

The ninth Museum Night in Leiden will take place on Friday 19 May 2017. This year's theme will be 'About time'. Nine museums are taking part and the ...

Writing is a complex creative effort that involves many steps, such as the design of a strategic plan, data collection and processing, structuring ide...

‘Leiden University's code of conduct on Integrity is comprehensive and complete,' says Zeger van der Wal, Professor by Special Appointment in Public ...