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2011 ERC Advanced Grant Willem Adelaar 15 December 2011
Prof. Willem Adelaar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to do research on Central and Southern American Indian languages.
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2011 David Shakouri awarded NWO PhD-position 08 August 2011
David Shakouri has been awarded a PhD-position by NWO for the PhDs in the Humanities Programme.
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NWO Free Competition subsidies for Professor I.M. Tieken and Dr H.W. Siemens 14 July 2011
Professor Ingrid Tieken (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, LUCL) and Dr Herman Siemens (Institute for Philosophy) have each been awarded an NW...
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2011 NWO Vrije competitie for Ingrid Tieken 04 July 2011
Ingrid Tieken, Professor at the English Department of Leiden University, has been awarded a Vrije Competite grant by NWO.
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Leiden alumna wins thesis prize 23 March 2011
On 17 March Renate Dekker was awarded the Cardinal Willebrand Prize for her MPhil thesis on 'The Sahidic Encomium of Pesunthios, bishop of Keft: towar...
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Special award for Ingrid Tieken 01 March 2011
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has received a special award: the Order of St. Mellitus, in recognition of her services to the history of the Bishops of...
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Logos in ancient Egypt 22 February 2011
The ancient Egyptians knew about marks as well as script. The New Empire (ca. 1550-1070 BC) in particular provides a rich harvest. The script has now ...
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Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 06 February 2011
Cambridge History of South Africa, volume 1: From early times to 1885 (edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross) made Choice mag...
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2011 Canon Foundation Research Fellowship for Rinus Verdonschot 02 January 2011
Rinus Verdonschot has been awarded a Canon Foundation Research Fellowschip to spend one year (2011-2012) ar Nagoya University, Japan.
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Prestigious Fellowship for Ingrid Tieken 15 December 2010
Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has been awarded a fellowship at Clare College at the University of Cambridge from February to August 2011. Sh...
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What Spinoza winners Ellemers, Sluiter and Franx will do with €2.5 million 27 September 2010
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans f...
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ 07 June 2010
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty,...
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ 07 June 2010
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty,...
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2009 Prof.dr Vincent van Heuven appointed as KNAW-member 19 May 2009
Prof.dr. Vincent van Heuven has been appointed as a member of the Royal Academie of Dutch Sciences (KNAW).