No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...

From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...

As of November 1st 2019, Professor Anthonya (Thony) Visser will become Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen and will leave LUCAS.

Thanks to the University’ assessors, students have been given a permanent voice in the faculties. This unique role was celebrated on 5 July at a recep...

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus strategic alliance (LDE) had reason to celebrate on 17 June, when the Executive Boards of Leiden University, TU Delft and Era...

Brightspace, the new online learning environment, will replace Blackboard as of September 2020. Around 50 courses will already be migrating to Brights...

Leiden University has published its Annual Report for 2018. Although it too has faced complex themes in the last year such as staff workload, internat...

Not a straight road in sight, but instead a route through buildings, alleyways and gardens that aren't usually open to the public. As in previous year...

Rembrandt lived long before audio and video recordings were invented. But a group of researchers has managed to reconstruct his voice. How? Lecturer i...

‘Connecting with society’ is one of the main points of the ministerial research policy for the coming years. Policy officer Marcel Belderbos talks abo...

To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Frits Koning are confidential counsellors for academic integrity at Leiden University. Koning is the confidential co...

In the coming year, several relocations will take place in order to be able to continue offering education on the campus. Due to renovations of the pr...

Since the end of May, the Faculty of Humanities 'Humanities Matter' art route has been on display. Due to the many positive responses, we have decided...

Between the humanities Dean Mark Rutgers and his busy schedule we can find board secretary Jonique van Hooff. Her task is to make sure that the Dean g...