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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden09 November 2017Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award06 September 2017Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s...
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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year04 September 2017One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place. Plast...
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Veni award for Anna Dlabačová31 July 2017The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to four Humanities researchers at Leiden University. One of them i...
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches28 July 2017The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...
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NWO KIEM Grant for LUCAS researchers05 July 2017Together with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and creative partner Big Orange, Laura Bertens, Sara Polak, Yra van Dijk, and Thony Visser will investiga...
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3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award01 June 2017The international World Cultural Council (WCC) has awarded Nadine Akkerman, Victoria Nyst and Alicia Schrikker with Special Recognition Awards given t...
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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...