On 7 October the beginners course Dutch has successfully started with a pizza kick-off.

The Leiden University Green Office is pleased to announce the details of its Spring Event, which will consist of a poetry reading and a clotheswap!

Pim Schipper has won the third prize for his oral presentation during the tenth biennial meeting of the Globalization of Pharmaceutics Education Network (GPEN), which was held from 27 – 30 Aug 2014 at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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PhD candidate Jonathan Ouellet is a guest on the latest episode of the Wetenschappelijke Wezens podcast. As a researcher specializing in the numismatics of the Middle East, Central Asia, and China, Jonathan discusses currency and trade networks during the Early Islamic Period of said area. Hence, listen…

In the first instalment of the three-part podcast series Óf Bones, Brains, and Pink Elephants, three students of Utrecht University interview Dr Amanda Henry on dental care in the past. Why do we need to brush our teeth, and why didn't our ancestors?

The cumulative index contains a list of all the editorials, articles, case notes published in each volume by subject ever since publication started in 1963.

In Dutch newspaper Trouw, Joost Kok describes the operation and accuracy of smartphones, smart bracelets and watches.

On 19 July Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor of Turkish languages and cultures, made a TV appearance in Nieuwsuur to talk about the actions Erdogan took after the failed coup.

Prof. dr. Aad van der Vaart has been appointed as Scientific Director of the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University on Tuesday 15 September 2015. He succeeds prof. dr. Peter Stevenhagen who has been a dedicated Scientific Director of the Mathematical Institute as from 2007.

Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Anna van Duijvenvoorde.

PhD candidate Gineke Wiggers has received a scholarship to attend the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

From the NWO Open Competition Frank den Hollander has been awarded a two year postdoc grant, entitled

Leiden University mourns the victims of the terrorist attacks in Brussels. These attacks are an assault on our democratic society. We will continue to defend our European values of freedom and tolerance against all attempts to undermine them.

At the end of 2020, the Advisory Committee on Aliens Affairs issued the report 'Nadeel van de twijfel' (The Doubt) on the way the (age) registration of asylum seekers in another EU member state is dealt with.

On the 27th of October the 7th conference - organised by the Centre for European Company Law (CECL) - will be held in Rome, Italy.

Distance / Fiction is a sound installation that deals with the ways listening is entwined with processes and techniques of sound mediation.

In what settings do great ideas turn op? Quanta Magazine follows top scientists to their favorite places to think, tinker and create. Leiden astronomer Ewine van Dischoeck showed the magazine the Noordwijk beach. 'Somebody from the Netherlands is unavoidably linked with water.'

On Monday, February 12, the official spokesperson of the Hungarian government, Mr. Zoltán Kovács visited Wijnhaven to meet with students and discuss several interesting topics with them.

Here you will find information about Guus Boelens' graduation ceremony.

On Wednesday 9 March 2016, NWO-WOTRO organized a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) routeworkshop in the framework of the National Research Agenda.

Grass, nettles, dandelions: we should banish them from our gardens, right? Wrong! Weeds can help cool, fertilise and increase biodiversity in your garden. In this episode of The University of the Netherlands, biologist Nienke Beets lists the advantages of more green in our villages and towns.

Mariana Gkliati presented on Tuesday 2 June at the 4rth Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative organised at the University of London. The title of the conference was Rethinking the ‘Regional’ in Refugee Law and Policy.

Drs. Lindsey Burggraaff wins KNCV poster prize in the category

Ekaterina Pannebakker, Associate Professor of Private International Law, has won first prize in an international essay competition.

On 24 May 2022, Christa Tobler gave a lecture on 'EU-Swiss Legal Relations: Why do we still not have an Energy Agreement?'

On 18 and 19 October 2018 the PhDArts Conference took place at the P.J. Veth building in Leiden.

You can't have missed it: Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary in 2019 with a year-long programme of activities for the people of Leiden and The Hague. The Dies Natalis on 7 February 2020 marks the end of this special year. High time to look back at what we did!

Heb jij je al ingeschreven voor Groene Peper?

On Tuesday 11 December Law graduates and Criminology graduates received their bachelor degree certificates.

On 28 October 2021, the ombuds office of the city of Zurich - incidentally the very first communal ombuds office in Europe - celebrated its 50th anniversary.

The Leiden Archaeology Social Media Team (LUFASM) proudly presents their second mini-documentary in the series on Leiden Archaeology projects. The Karakorum Rescue Project is run by Marike van Aerde and Abdul Ghani Khan, and is a collaboration between archaeologists in Pakistan and the Netherlands.

Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Ellen de Bruijn.

The Stans Prize is a yearly student incentive award for the best thesis, article or report produced by a CML student. Jim van Ruijven wrote his report for his bachelor study in Sustainable Molecular Science and Technology.

On 4 November 2022, Jan Aart Scholte presented a paper on 'Individual Sources of Legitimacy in Multistakeholder Global Governance at ICANN' at a workshop at the Global Policy Institute, University of Durham on 'Legitimacy and Legitimisation of Global Governance in Crisis'. Click here to find out more…

On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior officials of the House of Representatives and Rijks I-Ecosysteem. With the presentation, they successfully completed this part of the Data Science master…

Predictable variation in children’s dosage Professor Catherijne Knibbe – Pharmacology There is no adequate foundation for te dosage of medicines prescribed for children in 40-80% of cases.

LI Weiya from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei City, has been awarded a general scholarship by the CSC (China Scholarship Council) to carry out his PhD research at the Laboratory for Material Culture Studies.

We have decided to cancel the Summer School for Historical Acting due to the ongoing global public health crisis.

Daniël van Loggerenberg, alumnus of the master’s programme Financieel Recht en Fiscaal Recht at Leiden Law School, has won the annual thesis award of the Vereniging voor Financieel Recht.

From May to November 2017 the Van Vollenhoven Institute will carry out a research project, funded by NWO/WOTRO, on ‘Everyday justice and security provision for displaced and residents in Bukavu, DR Congo’.

The Faculties of Archaeology and Humanities at Leiden University invite applications for a part time Full Professorship in Classical Archaeology. Appointment as soon as possible but not later than 1 September 2016.

On Wednesday January 25, Hayley Mickleburgh was hosted by the radio show de Kennis van Nu (NPO radio 1). Here she told about her work on a body farm in Texas. She investigates the decomposition processes of human remains.

On 25 April 2016, Suliman Ibrahim, Senior Researcher at the VVI, was a guest expert on the weekly radio program: 'Huna Libya', a joint initiative by the Libyan al-Wasat Radio and Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW).

Want to have your say on the future of Leiden University? On our teaching, research and the organisation itself? Register for one or more online meetings on 25 and 28 June and you’ll be able to discuss this with other students and staff.

Fons Verbeek participates in a taskforce on digital atlassing in the rodent brain. This taskforce has developed a common reference framework so that the different atlasses that are being used, are interoperable.

We are very pleased to announce that KU Leuven joins the partnership of the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS). KU Leuven is the first Belgian university to take part in NISIS. Prof. Amr Ryad will take place in the NISIS board as representative.

There is something strange about all the comments relating to the Jihadist-movies that flood across the social media.

BplusC Libraries and Old Observatory Leiden working together to provide telescopes

This one-day conference, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), invites you to share your research ideas and results in practices of comparative medievalism in arts and culture. We therefore invite contributions of papers that analyse cultural representations of the…