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Royal distinction for linguist Ingrid Tieken11 September 2020Professor of Sociohistorical Linguistics Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 11 Septembe...
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Lotte Fikkers wins Faculty Teaching Prize 202002 September 2020Lotte Fikkers, university lecturer in English literature, received the Faculty Teaching Prize at the opening of the faculty year. ‘She is clearly very...
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A whole new (computational) world08 June 2020Historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn is awarded a substantial Digital Infrastructure grant as well as being selected as member of the prestigious Young ...
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Classicist Ineke Sluiter KNAW president01 June 2020Leiden professor Ineke Sluiter was appointed president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) on 1 June. She was presented with ...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund19 May 2020The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Three Comenius teaching grants for young Leiden lecturers18 May 2020Three young lecturers are to receive a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant of 50,000 euros. The grant will allow each of them to implement an innovation pr...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation14 May 2020Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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Three new Leiden members of KNAW30 April 2020KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...
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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten Jansen24 April 2020On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Paper Salvador Santino Regilme receives "Best Conference Paper Award"09 March 2020
Salvador Santino Regilme's paper “One Great Nation Under Trump? Global Human Rights in Distress Amidst American Decline” has received the "Best Confer...
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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award05 March 2020Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently worki...
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Sam de Schutter wins the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize02 March 2020Sam de Schutter won the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 2019 for his article “A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, an...
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Ineke Sluiter receives honorary degree from the University of Bristol21 February 2020Ineke Sluiter received an honorary degree from the University of Bristol on 18 February 2020. In the Wills Memorial Building, she addressed young doct...
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes20 February 2020Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Nether...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers20 February 2020Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...