Artist Marlene Dumas gave the 48th Huizinga Lecture to a packed Pieterskerk on 6 December. She spoke about her own background, and why this doesn’t necessarily explain her work.

If universities want to open their doors to more students and staff from minority groups, good intentions alone will not suffice, says Frank Tuitt, Diversity Officer at the University of Denver.

Chemist Sander van Kasteren aims to map how our immune system responds to vaccines, particularly those that should cure diseases such as cancer and chronic viral infections.

A devastating tsunami engulfed large coastal areas in Asia and East Africa in 2004, with the Indonesian province of Aceh being hardest hit. Anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has written a book about this.

Leiden has the second-highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities, says the annual Women Professors Monitor.