1,811 search results for “leiden” in the Student website
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Combining research and a good cause: Tutoring programme concludes successfully
More than a course. That was the aim of the Leiden Tutoring programme. Through weekly tutoring lessons, students did not just earn five EC. They helped Dutch primary-school children from neighbourhoods with a low socioeconomic status.
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Singing parrots wanted: is our musicality unique?
Is our musicality unique? That’s what the Bird Singalong project aims to find out. And for that, they need the help of feathered friends from all around the world. ‘By researching how parrots learn songs, we also learn more about the origin of our own musicality.’ Do you have a parrot that can sing…
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'Working with PhD candidates gives me energy'
Erik Danen is the new Dean of the Graduate School from 1 January. He is a professor at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research and conducts research into cancer drugs. Danen is really looking forward to it: ‘PhD candidates are a special group: that's what I like to dedicate myself to.’
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A computational tool that will transform bacterial genome analysis
Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intuitive interface makes it much easier to unlock the secrets of bacterial genomes. A group of Leiden biologists presented it in Nature Communications.
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’
Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a video from 2014 on social media in which extreme remarks are made. ‘We can be short about such comments: they are unacceptable. The university is and always…
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Studying ferritin: ‘we hope this will eventually give more insight into Alzheimer's’
Martina Huber, Jacqueline Labra Munoz research Alzheimer's disease. They study ferritine, iron storage in the brain. An inbalance of iron could play a role in this form of dementia.
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Hague city councillors on working visit: ‘The Hague is becoming a real student city’
What does the University mean for The Hague? And what are researchers and students learning from the city and its residents? The Hague city councillors visited Campus The Hague on 27 September and spoke to administrators and researchers. ‘From Schilderswijk to Benoordenhout: we are a university for…
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Art project has students and lecturers reflecting on pressure to succeed
What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’? This is the focus of the Perspectify exhibition, which was opened on 16 November by President of the Executive Board Annetje Ottow.
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep?
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforced digitalisation has brought us valuable innovations and smart tools. The question is: what’s going well and what could we do differently? I’d love to…
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Opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science
Lecture, Opening of the Academic Year
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Cats & Coffee
Student well-being
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Application interview
Career and apply for jobs
- Annual meeting for programme committees 2023
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Brushes and Bites (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Hackathon - From Person to Open Data
Hackathon
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Workshop Academic Writing (basic skills)
Study support
- Study Support Group (8 meetings)
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Meet & greet for gifted students
Meet & greet
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Workshop LinkedIn profile and network
Career and apply for jobs
- Well-being Support Group (8 meetings)
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Well-being on the water!
Sport
- Student Support Group Ukraine (8 meetings)
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
- Well-being Wednesday: Studying successfully for exams
- Well-being Wednesday | Workshop: 'Small Talk'
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LinkedIn profile and network
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop LinkedIn Profile & Network
Career and apply for jobs
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Minor's Information Market
Study information
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Hour of Remembrance
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Plant cuttings fair
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
- Meet the Dean
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad
Information session
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CANCELLED: CareerTime FSW - CareerCollege
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop CV and Application letter
Career and apply for jobs
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Results of the university elections
Elections
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Una Europa: Event Design workshop
Online workshop
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Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Plant cuttings fair
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Super Mario Kart Battle
Festival, We are Science week
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO) conference
Conference
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Plant cuttings fair at the Hortus
Arts and culture, Stekjesmarkt
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Origami Folded Festivity workshop
Study support
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White Balls on Walls
Filmvertoning
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Workshop CV and Cover letter
Career and apply for jobs
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague) - 7 February 2024
Information session
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague) - 3 April 2024
Voorlichtingsbijeenkomst
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Public Lecture: 'How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market'
Lecture
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Poster presentations physics students MAPR
Exhibition, Poster presentations