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Paul Wouters receives RISE Award 22 March 2022
Paul Wouters received the RISE Award, an award by the women’s network RISE, for his commitment to increasing gender equality at the Faculty of Science...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia 21 March 2022
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Dissertation Joost Grootens awarded as one the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021. 21 March 2022
PhDArts alumnus Joost Grootens’ book 'Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information’ has ...
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience 18 March 2022
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study ...
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion? 17 March 2022
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious gr...
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LUC education team nominated for Dutch Higher Education Award 15 March 2022
The Leiden University College team behind the Learning Mindset project has been nominated for the Dutch Higher Education Award, an award for innovativ...
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Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe 15 March 2022
Across Europe, neighborhoods, schools and community centers are turned into living labs to experiment with “doing” the welfare state differently. Leid...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers 15 March 2022
Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on Tuesday. Two of the researchers wor...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives Fritz Zwicky prize for astrophysics & cosmology 11 March 2022
The Fritz Zwicky Prize 2022 for Astrophysics & Cosmology has been awarded to Prof. Ewine F. van Dishoeck for her pioneering, decades-long work in astr...
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Collaboration starts quest for new antibiotics through NWO fund 09 March 2022
Identifying novel antibiotic compounds to tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers from Leiden University and VU Amsterdam will unite through...
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Yvonne Erkens appointed as Global Law professor in Leuven 08 March 2022
Yvonne Erkens, Associate Professor of Labour Law, has been appointed as a Global Law professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’ 03 March 2022
Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented...
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Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij wins Florschütz Thesis Award 03 March 2022
Annually, the Dutch Palynologische Kring invites nominations for the Florschütz Award for best MSc thesis in Palynology and Palaeobotany. This year, t...
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Nicole van Os wins Academy Kiss 01 March 2022
Nicole van Os won the Academy Kiss 2022. Van Os, study coordinator and advisor who also chairs the Delegation of Workers' Organizations in The Local C...
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Prestigious Gutenberg Research Award for archaeologist Wil Roebroeks 23 February 2022
Leiden archaeologist Professor Wil Roebroeks receives the 2021 Gutenberg Research Award of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). "By granting Wil...