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Honorary doctorate for Canadian-American astrophysicist Sara Seager 17 November 2023
Leiden University will confer an honorary doctorate on astrophysicist Sara Seager for her work on exoplanets. Seager will receive the doctorate during...
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Jayshri Ramadhin wins Moot Court Challenge Cup 16 November 2023
This was the twelfth occasion that the Moot Court Challenge Cup has been awarded! This time for the best oral argument at the Moot Court held in the s...
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Dual Medical Delta appointment for six Leiden professors and one lecturer 15 November 2023
Six professors and one lecturer from Leiden University have officially been appointed Medical Delta professors or lecturers. They were inaugurated sim...
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Luning and Hein receive LUF grant to carry out research on infrastructure projects in Ghana and Morocco 13 November 2023
Infrastructure projects such as ports, highways and railways are intertwined with geopolitics, economic systems, political interests and cultural valu...
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Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels Grant 13 November 2023
Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like material, is often used for making tools by Mesoamerican societies. In Honduras, certain obsidian artefacts do not yet...
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Call for nominations Jewish Studies Thesis Prize 2023 09 November 2023
The Leiden Jewish Studies Association is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" produced at Leiden Univers...
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Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students 09 November 2023
Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects. ...
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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023 08 November 2023
The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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ZonMw grant for Leonie Vreeke to develop a stepped-care treatment for very shy young children 06 November 2023
Psychologist Leonie Vreeke is ready to start a new 5-year research project which was granted by ZonMw with nearly € 600.000,-. A PhD student and a res...
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Hadassah Drukarch receives prestigious 2023 Brinkhof Internet Thesis Award 31 October 2023
We are proud to share that Hadassah Drukarch, a graduate of our Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies (class of 2022-2023), has been honored ...
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer 30 October 2023
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant t...
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€10.6 million for innovative toolboxes to tackle brain cancer 26 October 2023
Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam (Uva) and Leiden together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute have received a €10,...
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent' 23 October 2023
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks universi...
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A meaningful view of diversity? You'll find it in art 20 October 2023
What does it mean to be a migrant in a big city? According to assistant professor Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, artists have the answer to that question...
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Silence as a form of activism: 'It is precisely by being silent that you sometimes keep the conversation open' 20 October 2023
We talk too little about silence, thinks university lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven. He has been awarded a Veni grant to investigate the role of sile...