Distance, distance and distance again. That’s the motto of this week’s Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) for international students. And the OWL might be ...
With the new academic year just around the corner, many more students and lecturers will soon be coming to the University. What are we doing to keep o...
Leiden University has officially switched over to digital learning environment Brightspace. Blackboard has therefore been replaced after 20 years. Lei...
On 7 July 2020 medical lecturer Luuk Willems received his SKO certificate (Senior Teaching Qualification) and may now officially call himself a senior...
Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...
Having a bachelor, master and Ph.D in chemistry, Elena Sánchez López shifted to a more biological research for her postdoc. All of her studies she did...
The European University for Well-Being is organising a hackathon from 14 to 21 September to generate concrete proposals for this virtual university an...
Having to remind users of the café at the University Sports Centre (USC) about the 1.5 metre rule is something that can be quite difficult for the stu...
A team of no fewer than 28 student assistants is helping the faculties migrate courses from Blackboard, the current digital learning environment, to B...
What happens if you are an academic forced to flee your home country and find yourself here in the Netherlands with practically nothing? The Hestia sc...
Dr. Alise Muok, originally from California, arrived in 2018 for her postdoc position in Leiden, at the Biology Institute. With a grant of the Dutch Ca...
From a lovely blossoming garden in Barcelona, Eduard Fosch Villaronga is talking enthusiastically about his postdoc at Leiden University. Due to the c...
Arianna Pranger has lost her heart to teaching. A senior lecturer on the master’s programme in Pharmacy, she won the LUS Teaching Prize 2020. The prog...
All first-year bachelor’s students at Leiden will be assigned a student as a mentor and a lecturer as a tutor to help them find their way around their...
No decorated signs on an overfull Lammermarkt but instead a video meeting that gradually fills up and the inevitable question of ‘Can everyone hear me...