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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'19 November 2024It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Valerie Frissen wins Lifetime Achievement Award18 November 2024On 10 October, Valerie Frissen was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Internet Society Foundation. The professor by special appointment rec...
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Anne van Rongen wins the Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award18 November 2024Anne van Rongen has been honoured with the Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology...
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KWF funding for research on culturally sensitive palliative care06 November 2024Providing good information to patients is crucial, especially in their final phase of life. Not all patients want to receive full details about their ...
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Sophie Starrenburg elected as member of Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture04 November 2024In October, Sophie Starrenburg was elected as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture. S...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize04 November 2024Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...
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Mees Vergouwen wins Mitchell B. Carroll Prize01 November 2024Mees Vergouwen was awarded the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize by the International Fiscal Association (IFA) on 28 October 2024. The tax specialist won the ...
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Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture30 October 2024What does forced migration have to do with the way a humanist aesthetics was forged after World War II? A Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows...
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation28 October 2024This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize24 October 2024Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Vidi grant for The Future of Dying24 October 2024Amidst the growing availability of advanced life-lengthening medical interventions, both healthcare professionals and patients are recognizing that le...
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Mark Lindenberg and Ieke van Dam winners of the Metje Postma Awards23 October 2024'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto...