551 news items found
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Using the placebo effect for your healthEven if you have a healthy lifestyle, there's a lot to experience and learn during the Healthy University Week, from 26 to 30 October. Health psycholo...
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 yearsOnline competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Heste...
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‘Surgeons and rowers have a lot in common’Rower Boudewijn Röell (31) already has one Olympic medal, but he's hoping to win another in Tokyo. 'At some point, though, you do have to stop.' Easi...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and DiversityThe start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Alumna Amber Brantsen: ‘Allow yourself to make mistakes’A glowing first-time mother-to-be with an impressive CV for someone of her age, newsreader Amber Brantsen would seem to lead a charmed life. ‘But I be...
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Bachelor’s Open Days and Master’s Week will be completely online – and that has its advantages tooWith interactive live presentations, a mass of chat opportunities and 360 degree videos, more prospective students than ever can gain a good impressio...
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Corona: support for (and from) studentsThe corona crisis has also had a huge impact on our university and therefore on the lives of our students too. With our teaching mostly online and onl...
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Management changes within LurisLuris supports and advises researchers and societal partners with knowledge transfer, research impact, grant applications and public-private partnersh...
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden UniversityTeaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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What are the University Council’s priorities this year?The University Council, with a new set of members since 1 September, has formulated six priorities where its members would like to make good progress ...
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Virologist Eric Snijder: ‘Vaccination will be going well in 2021’The research group of Eric Snijder, Professor of Molecular Virology (LUMC), has been conducting research on coronaviruses for decades. Then in March t...
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New ‘progress pride flag’ flying on annual Coming Out DayIt is still not easy to ‘come out’ about your sexual orientation or gender identity. On Coming Out Day (11 October), the issue was the focus of global...
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Leiden students share their corona experiences: ‘It started with a headache’‘It started with a headache, like a hangover. So I didn’t really worry. But then the headache changed and my throat began to hurt too.’ Student Joy ca...
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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and BidenFew have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was...
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University Council discusses Development Strategy and Implementation Plan for Campus The Hague 2020-2030On Monday 28 September, the University Council (UR) will discuss the Development Strategy and the Implementation Plan for Leiden University's Campus T...