Last month, research by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) revealed that more than half of students in higher profess...

Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the...

The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greates...

Sustainability researchers can play an important role in the energy transition. But what if their partners are not (yet) sustainable and science itsel...

Women’s football is steadily gaining attention. It’s as though the sport is becoming emancipated. And yet in conversations with professional female fo...

Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long whil...

Problems cannot always be solved from a desk. Students on the Master’s in Governance of Sustainability therefore went to various Leiden neighbourhoods...

Last year around 2,000 international students started a master’s degree at Leiden University. To make this possible, there are various grants that the...

Receiving a gift is nice, but giving a present also makes you happy. Development psychologist Mara van der Meulen from the Leiden Consortium on Indivi...

EUniWell, the alliance of seven European universities committed to developing teaching and research relating to well-being, is celebrating its first a...

Patients with incurable cancer want their oncologist to be clear but to show empathy too. They find hard and vague communication harmful. These are th...

Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society acces...

The university campus at Leiden Bio Science Park will change rapidly over the next few years. A short film shows the transformation to a full campus. ...

What do you think about our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to ...

On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...