Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...

The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facil...

Leiden University is currently working on the new Gorlaeus Building, a sustainable modern building for the Faculty of Science. To make room for the ph...

How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we...

From 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to ...

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.

At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...

Gilles van Wezel of the Institute of Biology Leiden will lead a European consortium to search for new medicines and disease-suppressive microbes while...

What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...

Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Gee...

Dennis Claessen has been appointed professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Institute of Biology Leiden. With his teaching and research on the cell ...

At the end of the year we always compile a list of our most interesting, most popular articles from that year. In the crazy year that was 2020 one top...

How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That’s the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Jasmijn Mioch, for instan...

It’s been a turbulent, bizarre and extraordinary year, 2020. Coronavirus turned the lives of everyone at our University upside down. Out teaching, res...

They were pleased enough to receive a grant from the LUF International Study Fund (LISF). That the same research internship would also win them a priz...