It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...

The death of George Floyd has led to fierce protests against police violence in the United States and beyond. What effects are we seeing in our Unive...

The results of the 2020 University elections have been announced. With the exception of a few seats, little will change in the University Council in c...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...

The restrictive measures imposed by the government to contain the coronavirus are slowly being relaxed. What does this mean for Leiden University, for...

The University elections are from 25 to 29 May. You get to choose who will represent you this coming year in the various faculty councils, the LUMC St...

Astronomer Ignas Snellen studies exoplanets using telescope observations. But how is that possible when all the big telescopes are more or less at a s...

Although the majority of University staff are currently working from home, dozens of UFB employees are still at work in University premises. They are ...

Due to the fire in the student apartment on the Rijswijkseplein 'De Struyck' in The Hague, we have set up an emergency number: 071-5271132.

Yuven Muniandy (36) from Malaysia recently obtained a PhD from Leiden University. His ‘orientation year’ visa gives him a year to find work in the Net...

How is Leiden University doing in these times of corona, and what kind of new academic year can we expect? Rector Carel Stolker was interviewed by Dut...

Shortly before Remembrance Day, a new film was launched about the life and legacy of Ben Telders. Telders was professor of Dutch Law at Leiden Univer...

From 1 August 2020, smoking on the premises of Leiden University will be prohibited. Dutch law obliges institutions of higher education to enforce a f...

This year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan M...

The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...