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Newscheckers wins European Citizen Award 07 July 2022
The fact-checking initiative Nieuwscheckers has won the Dutch round of the European Citizens Award. This prize is awarded annually to projects and ini...
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy 07 July 2022
University lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li has been awarded a Veni grant for her research on feminist theories within the B...
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Winners Meijers PhD positions 2022 05 July 2022
Each year, Leiden Law School makes two Meijers PhD positions available to talented researchers. One position is open to participants in the Pre-PhD Pr...
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Antibiotics of the future: looking for a new way to kill bacteria 04 July 2022
Current antibiotics only address very few target proteins in bacteria to kill them. Researchers know that there are more possible target proteins to t...
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins 04 July 2022
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lectur...
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Eric De Brabandere, Anna Marhold and Nico Schrijver included in new European Commission arbitrators pool 04 July 2022
Eric De Brabandere, Anna Marhold and Nico Schrijver of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies have been included as arbitrators and Trade ...
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Lauren Lauret receives D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 30 June 2022
University lecturer Lauren Lauret has been awarded the D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 for her dissertation on the meeting practices of the States General dur...
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Composition by Aart Strootman awarded Black Pencil in Schokland Prize 30 June 2022
The composition Popular Archeology: Volca #1 (for percussion) by composer and ACPA PhD researcher Aart Strootman, has been awarded the Black Pencil in...
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Citizen science project Heritage Quest wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 30 June 2022
Gelderland Heritage and Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology have won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 in the ‘research’ c...
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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University 30 June 2022
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them...
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Young talent: quantum scientist receives Young Scientist Prize 29 June 2022
Only 35 years old and already a research group leader, on his way to tenure. And: numerous papers, grants and fellowships to his name. Leiden physicis...
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? 28 June 2022
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a g...
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Matt Young wins Camilla Stivers Award: 'It means a lot more to me than I expected' 28 June 2022
Matt Young, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, has won the 2022 Camilla Stivers Award last week. Young and his co-authors ...
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Young Talent Award for Anne Urai 27 June 2022
Psychologist Anne Urai has received the Young talent award from the Dutch Neuroscience society. She was described as a 'talented, promising early care...
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration 27 June 2022
Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints an...