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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 2023 15 September 2023
Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation 12 September 2023
Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foun...
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us' 11 September 2023
Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive ...
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Olja Karmanova wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2023 11 September 2023
The Humanities Faculty Teaching Award has been won by Olja Karmanova. The Russian lecturer was presented with the award during the opening of the facu...
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention 08 September 2023
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material show...
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Why stress could be good for you 07 September 2023
Acute stress seems to have a surprisingly positive effect on our health. Researcher Erin Faught received an NWO veni grant to find out why that is and...
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Psychology education on suicide prevention honoured with Casimir prize 07 September 2023
'We are very happy with this recognition! The great thing about this prize is that it celebrates team effort', Joanne Mouthaan responds to the Casimir...
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Cultural stereotyping in European Union governance: research on the impact of stereotypes receives ERC Starting Grant 05 September 2023
EUROTYPES is a research project developed by political scientist Adina Akbik, for which she recently received a European Research Council Starting Gra...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2023: the nominees 05 September 2023
The bachelor thesis is the pièce de résistance of a bachelor’s in Political Science. It demands academic craftsmanship and creativity, as well as bloo...
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers 05 September 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their resear...
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like? 05 September 2023
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archive...
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Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant 04 September 2023
All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image...
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit' 01 September 2023
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’ 30 August 2023
Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the F...
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Gerard van Westen wins KNCV Gold Medal 29 August 2023
Gerard van Westen has received the KNCV Gold Medal, the most important Dutch award for chemists under 40. 'It's a huge honour,' says the professor of ...