450 news items found
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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded 30 March 2023With an off-the-charts number of downloads, outstanding media coverage, and more than 300 tweets, a small team behind the Scientific Reports article l...
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Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius 30 March 2023Representatives of the Faculty of Archaeology recently traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius to repatriate human remains. The remains, ori...
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Field School 2023: We are back in Oss! 30 March 2023Monday, 3 April, the yearly field school for all first-year students at the Faculty of Archaeology will start. The municipality of Oss is welcoming ou...
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy 30 March 2023At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy ...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world 28 March 2023It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...
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Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology 27 March 2023‘Qasr Bshir is magnificent even in decline. It sits majestically in the landscape, master of all it surveys. On approaching the site, however, it is c...
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University launches Vision on Student Well-Being: ‘An open culture where we look out for one another’ 23 March 2023How can we work together to create a safe study and learning environment and offer students the support that they need? The Vision on Student Well-Bei...
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research 23 March 2023Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that ...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens 21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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How did trade networks arise in the third millennium BC? 17 March 2023Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, amber from the Baltic and tin from Tajikistan. In the third millennium BC objects and raw materials were transported ov...
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Green light for student housing in Oegstgeest part of Bio Science Park 17 March 2023Leiden University can start work on 300 student and 500 other dwellings in the Oegstgeest part of the Leiden Bio Science Park, with facilities includi...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story 13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections 13 March 2023The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...
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New portal helps students choose from 200 minors at 3 universities 13 March 2023As from April 2023 all students at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam will start using the eduXchange ...
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery) 03 March 2023Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, sci...