The Netherlands commemorates the victims of the Second World War on 4 May and celebrates its liberation on 5 May. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars added more personal information to the list of  ‘Leiden’ university war victims (who were students, alumni and staff)

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Every two years, students from Leiden University go into the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo. There they speak with Malaysian people to discover the use of plants or learn a local fishing technique. Improvising in the jungle leads to fruitful, creative, and important research.

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Ancient clay tablets, between 2,500 and 4,000 years old, bearing cuneiform script have been scanned using a micro-CT-scanner at Delft University of Technology. The tablets are owned by the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO).

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Mind of the Universe is  a series of portaits of worldwide leading scientists broadcasted summer 2017 by the VPRO. This populair series gets a follow-up in an online learning programme: ‘Mind of the Universe Online Learning Experience‘, developed and executed by scientists and learning developers of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities.

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For internationals students it can be quite a challenge to secure an internship or work on expanding their network. Would you like to offer a helping hand to students and young alumni and share your knowledge and experience in an informal manner?
Join our Leiden University Mentor Network!

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