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Rebekah Tromble to lead Twitter-funded research team on online discussionsIn the context of growing political polarisation, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, how can Twitter assess an...
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Another gold for botanical artist Esmée WinkelAlumna Esmée Winkel, scientific illustrator and botanical artist, has been awarded a gold medal by the British Royal Horticultural Society for a serie...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchersThe European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 mil...
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Corinne Hofman elected to prestigious British Academy fellowshipProfessor Corinne Hofman has been made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. She is among 76 distingui...
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Interview: Spinoza Prize winner Marileen DogteromPhysicist Marileen Dogterom is one of the winners of the Spinoza Prize 2018. She is a professor at TU Delft, where she has her lab, and is also affili...
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Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in AcademiaLaura Heitman is awarded the 2018 EFMC runner-up prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
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Centenary of Nelson Mandela's birthOn 18 July 2018 former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela would have been 100 years old. In 1999 the anti-apartheid activist received an honorar...
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2 new Veni-grants: investigating malaria in the Middle Ages and coinage in RomeTwo researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award off...
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Veni grant for research into the youngest exoplanetsThe Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded Leiden astronomer Giovanni Rosotti a Veni grant for research into very young exoplane...
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchersSixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers p...
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Making Facebook data available to researchersPolitical scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) has been appointed as an academic advisor to the Social Science One research commission. She w...
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Future diplomats graduate in The HagueA new class of the master's programme International Relations and Diplomacy graduated on 6 July. We asked the graduates all about their studies, the c...
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David Fontijn appointed as affiliated member German Archaeological InstituteThe German Archaeological Institute is a world leading research institute, which conducts and facilitates research in the archaeological sciences and ...
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Carolien Rieffe starts LDE research on autism in studentsThe Leiden University psychologist Carolien Rieffe will investigate how to create an social climate at high schools, to make young people with autism ...
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Gisela Hirschmann and Niels van Doesum receive LUF/Gratama research grantLeiden University researchers Gisela Hirschmann (Political Science) and Niels van Doesum (Psychology) have been awarded a LUF/Gratama grant for their ...