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Alwin Kloekhorst receives Vidi grant 23 May 2014
Alwin Kloekhorst, working at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has received a Vidi grant for his research on the break-up of the Indo-Euro...
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Composer and ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in the International Rostrum for Composers 23 May 2014
Former student of Leiden University professor Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Cyprus-born ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides,...
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Anglicist Ingrid Tieken appointed new member of KNAW 21 May 2014
Leiden Anglicist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is one of the seventeen new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tieken is Pr...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wins Libris Literature Prize 20 May 2014
Classics alumnus Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has won the Libris Literature Prize this year with his book La Superba. The Libris Literature Prize is one of ...
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Gert Oostindie receives NWO grant for Caribbean research 19 May 2014
Dutch-Caribbean research will get a boost. Gert Oostindie, working at the Institute of History and KITLV, has received a grant from NWO, consisting of...
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Adriaan van der Weel receives COST network subsidy 16 May 2014
Together with three other scholars Adriaan van der Weel successfully applied for a COST research network subsidy.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale 07 May 2014
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University ...
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Tazuko van Berkel receives 260 year old prize 29 April 2014
The 260 year old prize of the Legatum Stolpianum has been awarded in 2014 to two well written historical studies of high quality and with current sign...
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Jessica Roitman accepted for prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute 18 March 2014
Jessica Roitman accepted for the prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute.
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Daniela Merolla qualified with ‘Habilitation’ 06 March 2014
The "Habilitation"(HDR) is the highest qualification that a researcher can achieve in France and qualifies the researcher to supervise doctoral candid...
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans 12 February 2014
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survi...
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Bert Mooiman receives NWO doctoral scholarship 27 January 2014
On 20 December 2013, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that 37 teachers will be conducting doctoral research funded...
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Bobby Mitchell wins audience prize at YPF 23 January 2014
Pianist and docARTES researcher Bobby Mitchell has been awarded the audience prize at the finale of the 5th Young Pianists Festival in Amsterdam, last...
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Karène Sanchez genomineerd voor Leidse Onderwijsprijs 22 January 2014
Which teacher has the talent to really motivate their students or is able to combine current research in their lectures? These are important qualifica...
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Roberta D'Alessandro appointed member of Global Young Academy 22 January 2014
Professor Roberta D'Alessandro, from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has been appointed a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) from ...