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Call for nominations Jewish Studies Thesis Prize 202309 November 2023
The Leiden Jewish Studies Association is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" produced at Leiden Univers...
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Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students09 November 2023Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects. ...
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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023The winners are Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs for their paper “A Philosophical Introduction to Hidden Symmetries in Physics.” 08 November 2023The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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ZonMw grant for Leonie Vreeke to develop a stepped-care treatment for very shy young children06 November 2023Psychologist Leonie Vreeke is ready to start a new 5-year research project which was granted by ZonMw with nearly € 600.000,-. A PhD student and a res...
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Hadassah Drukarch receives prestigious 2023 Brinkhof Internet Thesis Award31 October 2023We are proud to share that Hadassah Drukarch, a graduate of our Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies (class of 2022-2023), has been honored ...
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer30 October 2023A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant t...
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€10.6 million for innovative toolboxes to tackle brain cancer26 October 2023Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam (Uva) and Leiden together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute have received a €10,...
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'23 October 2023When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks universi...
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A meaningful view of diversity? You'll find it in art20 October 2023What does it mean to be a migrant in a big city? According to assistant professor Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, artists have the answer to that question...
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Silence as a form of activism: 'It is precisely by being silent that you sometimes keep the conversation open'20 October 2023We talk too little about silence, thinks university lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven. He has been awarded a Veni grant to investigate the role of sile...
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Master's student Nicole ter Laak wins KNMP Studentenprijs 202317 October 2023Biopharmaceutical sciences master's student Nicole ter Laak has won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2023. She wins the prize for her research project on dosin...
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Adrian Heier wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 202313 October 2023Graduating from a Political Science master’s programme is an important milestone. The thesis plays an central role: it demonstrates the alumnus’ abili...
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Professor bids farewell with roadshow in Indonesia: 'One big celebration of recognition'12 October 2023Whereas most outgoing professors are offered a congress, Nico Kaptein's former students and PhD students took a bigger approach. They treated him not ...
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Andrew Webb wins Huibregtsen Prize for portable MRI scanner10 October 2023Professor of Radiology Andrew Webb and his collaborative partner Johnes Obungoloch from Uganda have won the 2023 Huibregtsen Prize. They are receiving...
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Annaya Taradyla Rangkuty and Femke Verhelst win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes 202310 October 2023All Political Science graduates have good reasons to be proud of themselves, having successfully completed their studies and having demonstrated consi...