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Fulbright Scholarship for Alanna O'Malley31 May 2017Alanna O'Malley has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States from August 2017 to February 2018.
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The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has chosen Prof. Dr. Lisa Cheng as a member16 May 2017The prominent members of KNAW, are chosen on their academic and scientific achievements and the membership is for life. The academic members will be ...
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First Campus Fryslân -Science prize for Bosma08 May 2017
Evelyn Bosma, researcher at the Fryske Akademy and LUCL, is the winner of the first science prize Campus Fryslân.
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€ 18.8 million grant for research into innovation processes in antiquity04 May 2017Successful innovation requires more than technological progress alone. Every new concept must first be firmly anchored into an existing context. At le...
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Gravitation grants for three major research programmes04 May 2017Three major research projects involving Leiden scientists have been awarded a grant from NWO’s Gravitation Programme. The projects are on innovation p...
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International Studies graduate nominated for Grand Finale Rotterdam10003 April 2017Roxanne Hoenstok, International Studies graduate and current International Relations student, has been nominated for the Grand Final of Rotterdam100. ...
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Jurriaan Witteman to receive the Keetje Hodshon Prijs31 March 2017The KHMW (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) has decided to grant the Keetje Hodshon Prijs voor Taalwetenschappen to LUCL’s Jurri...
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Alanna O'Malley and Adriaan van Veldhuizen win the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 201628 February 2017At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a...
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia08 February 2017On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the f...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China06 February 2017No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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Barend Beekhuizen wins the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize06 February 2017
Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has won the 2016 AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) dissertation prize!
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 201602 February 2017With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize27 January 2017Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article "Chinese Gold-decorated Paper and the Pers...
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Election as Honorary Member of the LSA16 January 2017Prof. Dr. Willem Adelaar has been elected as Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
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Nomination for Barend Beekhuizen20 December 2016Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has been nominated for the annual AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) disser...