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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers 25 March 2024
Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022: Jasmijn Rana with Sec...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers 25 March 2024
The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Wouter Kalf and Niels van Doesum win a Seed Grant 19 March 2024
To support interdisciplinary research on today's world-scale changes and governing challenges, the GTGC programme awards a number of seed grants to sc...
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In Memoriam: Rudolf E. de Jong (1958–2024) 15 March 2024
On Friday 16 February 2024, Rudolf E. de Jong passed away unexpectedly in Cairo. Since 2012, he was the director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute ...
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Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention, 2023-2024 14 March 2024
Salvador Santino Regilme received an honorable mention from the Human Rights Section at the International Studies Association (ISA) for his book, Aid ...
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Carlotta Rigotti at the ‘Legal Technologies and the Bodies’ conference 13 March 2024
On 7 and 8 March 2024, SciencesPo Law School hosted the ‘Legal Technologies and the Bodies’ conference, where Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researche...
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Fieldwork NL on au pairs and thesis on public policy win Speckmann Awards 2024 12 March 2024
‘The care of an au pair' is chosen as the best Fieldwork NL report and 'The unruly reality of a new government' as the best master's thesis. Lila van ...
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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy 07 March 2024
With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-centur...
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.' 06 March 2024
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Ed...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play 05 March 2024
A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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In memoriam: Dr Andrzej Antczak (1956-2024) 05 March 2024
On February 28th of this year Dr. Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak died of cancer after a long battle. Until his retirement in 2023 Andrzej was attached to the...
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In memoriam: Juan José Jaime Aloísio Archidona Ramírez (1992 - 2024) 04 March 2024
On Monday 26 February the terrible news reached us that our gifted former Egyptology student – and former student assistant at the Leids Papyrologisch...
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Plant stress increases: New research with bacteria offers hope 04 March 2024
Soil that is too wet, or too dry. Or with a lot or few nutrients. Due to climate change, the differences are becoming bigger, and plants must increasi...
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And the winner is… Results of the annual physics image competition 04 March 2024
Salt crystals, a nano-sized golf stick and molten glass. The LION Image Award competition of 2023 yielded a lot of beautiful images once again. But in...
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DSM-firmenich award now for best MSc graduate, best doctorate, and most promising start-up 01 March 2024
Since 2020, the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Award has been annually presented by dsm-firmenich for the best master's or doctoral research at the Faculty o...