How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Hilde Pracht-Altorf, for...

Engaged, active students who can see the links within their discipline. These are key aims of the University vision on teaching and learning, but how ...

Young children who are less empathetic than their peers are more likely to be aggressive when older. This is what Malou Noten concludes in her dissert...

November 17 was the official launch day of EUniWell: the European University for Well-Being. EUniWell offers students, researchers and educators a ran...

Three Dutch scientists - including Professor of Korea Studies Remco Breuker – put forward forty propositions this summer aimed at improving science. T...

Professor Bert Meijer has been reappointed as a member of Leiden University’s Board of Governors by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, In...

Tell the truth about sustainability, become climate neutral by 2025 and safeguard democracy within the University. These are, in short, the demands of...

Materials like concrete, steel, plastic and fertiliser shape the world around us, but they’re also extremely polluting. If we want to build a more sus...

In Spring next year, a new and international team of archaeologists, historians, and education experts will start a collaborative project on the archa...

Wednesday November 11, the Honours Academy organized its yearly ceremony in order to award the 2020 honours certificates. Normally, this ceremony take...

Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, but was unable to prevent a genocide from unfolding before his ...

The new book, ‘Njord in de Oorlog’ (Njord during the War), describes how the Leiden student rowing club was affected by the Second World War in a deta...

On 11 November, neuropsychologist Liza Cornet competed in the semi-final of the FameLab international science communication competition. Her adventure...

Most Leiden master’s students who graduated between October 2016 and September 2018 soon found a job that was related to their degree programme. These...

On 11 November, Leiden University and the '3 October Vereeniging' confirmed their special relationship and collaboration in a covenant. This document ...