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...

From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...

With Sylvestre Bonnet, Jeroen Codée and Remus Dame, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will be getting no less than three new professors. Bonnet ...

In the Leiden Tutor programme, Leiden students support junior school pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This is a difficult task so the dep...

How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...

After many years, Peter Hamersma will retire and resign as Programme Director for the BSc Molecular Science & Technology. His successor is Volkert van...

A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...

This summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...