450 news items found
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023
Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient? 11 April 2023
Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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Mandy Koenraads: ‘We can really fortify the links between practice, research, and policy’ 05 April 2023
The Scriptiewerkplaats (thesis workshop) is an initiative of Leiden University, TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the municipality of The Ha...
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer 04 April 2023
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other? Bart Barendregt, Professor...
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Leiden University to take part in ‘smarter academic year’ pilots 04 April 2023
Can the academic year be structured in such a way to give students, lecturers and researchers a bit more breathing space? To find out, Leiden Universi...
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Playing bingo and walking with senior citizens for research into social cohesion 03 April 2023
Playing bingo and Dutch shuffleboard and going for walks with senior citzens is regular fare for Marieke van der Heijden, a master’s student in Cultur...
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Celebrating Twenty Years of MIRD: Alumni, Professors and Students Reconnect 03 April 2023
On 25 March, the Advanced Masters of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Throughout the day, the ...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023
Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Too late for your lecture? That’s a thing of the past with the new Kwartiertje pass 01 April 2023
Being on time for a lecture can be hard for students. To make life easier, you can now request for a ‘Kwartiertje’ pass.
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy 30 March 2023
At 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 2023
It 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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Charlotte Holt: 'This internship has allowed me to grow as a person, intellectually, and mentally’ 27 March 2023
Charlotte Holt is a second year International Justice student at Leiden University College. She did an internship at Academia Neerlandesa; a language ...
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The spy elephant in the room. Inaugural lecture by Dennis Broeders on the tangled web of cyber espionage 27 March 2023
Secret services are engaging in increasingly extreme forms of cyber espionage. But nobody talks about this. Dennis Broeders knows why and is trying to...
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University launches Vision on Student Well-Being: ‘An open culture where we look out for one another’ 23 March 2023
How 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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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list 23 March 2023
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...