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Browsing Chinese policy documents with AI: 'There is more public than you might think'23 June 2023Corona travel restrictions and increased political pressure: research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years. University le...
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Byvanck Professor Caroline Vout wins London Hellenic Prize for 2022 book21 June 2023This year's London Hellenic Prize is awarded to Caroline Vout for her excellent study of representations of the human body in sculpture, Exposed: The ...
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Lecturer receives doctoral grant for research into witness protection21 June 2023Gregory Townsend has been awarded a Doctoral Grant for Teachers by the Dutch Research Council to research witness protection at the international cour...
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Vincent Niochet investigates intercultural connectivity in the deep past with an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant20 June 2023For already two years, Vincent Niochet has been affiliated with the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology as an external PhD candidate. Now, he has been award...
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Archaeologist Mink van IJzendoorn receives LUF grant to investigate late amphorae19 June 2023Amphorae are usually associated with the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. ‘Yet, in some cases, such as Byzantium, amphorae existed for c...
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Award winners in Methodology and Statistics department19 June 2023The Department of Methodology and Statistics proudly celebrates the remarkable achievements of two award winners.
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students15 June 2023Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming research...
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Prize for production of sustainable rose smell14 June 2023Sustainable rose smell that can be produced on a large scale. Tobias Fecker made this into a possibility during his master's thesis, which was a colla...
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Historian Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor13 June 2023Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden...
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Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene09 June 2023The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields o...
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LUF grant for Sanne Willems08 June 2023The Leiden University Fund (LUF)/ Gratama-Foundation has awarded a 35.000 euro grant to statistics researcher Sanne Willems. This grant enables her to...
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DEN Award for Streaming the Past project: 'A truly innovative way to engage with new audiences'06 June 2023Back in 2021, the project Streaming the Past, an NWA funded project ran by Leiden University and the VALUE Foundation, launched to take a young audien...
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Can we make bioplastics with artificial photosynthesis?05 June 2023Mimicking photosynthesis to produce bioplastics sustainably and efficiently. Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Leiden Ins...
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?02 June 2023As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram...
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Depot or place of honour: what to do with Nobel laureates in the museum?01 June 2023What do you do with a museum collection full of individual white Nobel laureates at a time when diversity, inclusion and teamwork reign supreme? Ad Ma...