Leiden University is currently working on the new Gorlaeus Building, a sustainable modern building for the Faculty of Science. To make room for the ph...

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has started vaccinating staff from its intensive care, emergency and COVID departments. Junior doctor Christia...

From 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to ...

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.

Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Gee...

The University wants to remove the barriers experienced by students with disabilities as quickly as possible. Our teaching must also become inclusive,...

At the end of the year we always compile a list of our most interesting, most popular articles from that year. In the crazy year that was 2020 one top...

How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? That’s the question we are asking our colleagues in this series. Jasmijn Mioch, for instan...

It’s been a turbulent, bizarre and extraordinary year, 2020. Coronavirus turned the lives of everyone at our University upside down. Out teaching, res...

Kerstin Perez has reached the position of Assistant Professor of Particle Physics at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For peo...

The Centre for Innovation has launched a new podcast series called What if Education… In each episode, the host Monika Theron invites students, teache...

In spring 2020, the country was facing a potential lack of hospital ventilators for the huge numbers of Covid-19 patients. In response, Clinical Techn...

Leiden University has appointed a commission to investigate whether there are any grounds for allegations of antisemitism within the Faculty of Law. T...

Leiden University’s Campus The Hague has published its new strategy for the next ten years. Martijn Ridderbos, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, a...

Students from Leiden University will be able to study in the Stadsgehoorzaal on Breestraat in Leiden from Saturday 5 to Tuesday 15 December. The main ...