News
-
Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students 09 December 2019
Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
-
The most popular articles of 2019 09 December 2019
From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are some of our most popular articles of 2019.
-
Connect four: bachelor mathematics labelled excellent for the fourth time 06 December 2019
For the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...
-
Stefano Polla wins Lorentz Master thesis award 26 November 2019
Stefano Pollas master thesis 'Quantum Digital Cooling' has been awarded the Lorentz Master thesis award. The award, 3000 euros and a certificate, has ...
-
Master's students Data Science present solutions to central government and the House of Representatives 20 November 2019
On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior off...
-
Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong 15 November 2019
Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
-
Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid protein 12 November 2019
The Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
-
A Dutch podcast about physics 31 October 2019
New: Een Podcast over Natuurkunde, a podcast about Leiden physics. In the first episode, Dirk van Delft tells about the Hendrik Antoon Lorentz biograp...
-
Annual LION physics image award 31 October 2019
Finally, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award. Send us your most impressive, beautiful or insightful physics image, and win eternal fame on ...
-
What do you learn when attending an Open Day? 22 October 2019
The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors vi...
-
The art of being a teacher 08 October 2019
How to keep 80 students with different backgrounds motivated for 3 hours? Stefano Cucurachi knows how! By incorporating current developments, lively d...
-
Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019
Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
-
Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition 10 September 2019
On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
-
On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant 09 September 2019
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
-
Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans 02 September 2019
Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...