450 news items found
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future 18 October 2024Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurit...
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Solitary Quasars with Mysterious Origins 18 October 2024An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be...
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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions 15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day 15 October 2024So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...
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From wildlife journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution 14 October 2024Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his Ph...
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows 14 October 2024Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, ha...
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A cocktail of chemicals in surface water is more toxic than each substance individually 14 October 2024Pesticides can form a toxic cocktail when they occur in combination in surface water. This is the finding of research that Leiden University and the D...
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More housing in cities is possible without sacrificing green spaces 14 October 2024Building more in urban areas is, in most places in the Netherlands, the smartest way to tackle the housing crisis. This is evident from research condu...
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A theory rarely proves true in practice 14 October 2024Leiden students often prefer complicated theory and a difficult test to experiments. Yet associate professor Paul Logman believes students learn a lot...
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New video on Leiden student city feature Archaeology student Azra and Biology student Floris 11 October 2024In Leiden University's video series on Leiden and The Hague as student cities, students interview each other at their favorite spots. In the fifth vid...
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Executive Board and University Council discuss security measures 10 October 2024In a confidential meeting, the University Council (UR) and the Executive Board (CvB) have discussed security within our buildings, partly as a result ...
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‘Exposure therapy’ for bachelor students: preparing for the reality of scientific research 10 October 2024Already during their bachelor’s programme, students in Pharmaceutical Sciences are presented with challenging projects. One of these is the Bachelor R...