It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...

A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....

To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a  Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...

Alumnus Pim Spelier is one of the two winners of the ASML Graduation prizes for mathematics students. He used a new method to solve single polynomial ...

Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...

Jo-Anne Verschoor wins the Unilever Research Prize 2020. The master's student in Biology developed a method to test whether bacteria are capable of de...

For many high school students, mathematical formulas are nothing more than abracadabra. Didactic and mathematics teacher Peter Kop wants to change thi...

This year, two Leiden master students will be awarded a KNMP Student Award. Both Wisse van Os and Jip Linthorst will receive 1,000 euros from the Roya...

For the first time since the establishment of Leiden University, the Open Days took place online. On Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October high school stu...

A more efficient solar panel sounds great. But what if these new panels consume more toxic materials, or their production consumes a lot of energy? Le...

The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...

Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...

At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...

After a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...

The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the I...