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Fulbright award for MA student Çağlar Köseoğlu18 June 2014Çağlar Köseoğlu, MA student Literary Studies, has received the Fulbright Graduate Student Grant intended for students who want to study for a master’s...
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Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in International Rostrum for Composers06 June 2014
Yannis Kyriakides, PhD student at Academy of Creative and Performing Arts , has received the prestigious International Rostrum for Composers award, in...
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Roberta D'Alessandro granted Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia04 June 2014
Professor Roberta D’Alessandro, Chair of Italian Language and Culture at the Leiden University, has been awarded one of Italy’s highest honors: she is...
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Alwin Kloekhorst receives Vidi grant23 May 2014
Alwin Kloekhorst, working at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has received a Vidi grant for his research on the break-up of the Indo-Euro...
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Composer and ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in the International Rostrum for Composers23 May 2014
Former student of Leiden University professor Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Cyprus-born ACPA researcher Yannis Kyriakides,...
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Anglicist Ingrid Tieken appointed new member of KNAW21 May 2014
Leiden Anglicist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is one of the seventeen new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tieken is Pr...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wins Libris Literature Prize20 May 2014
Classics alumnus Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has won the Libris Literature Prize this year with his book La Superba. The Libris Literature Prize is one of ...
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Gert Oostindie receives NWO grant for Caribbean research19 May 2014
Dutch-Caribbean research will get a boost. Gert Oostindie, working at the Institute of History and KITLV, has received a grant from NWO, consisting of...
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Adriaan van der Weel receives COST network subsidy16 May 2014
Together with three other scholars Adriaan van der Weel successfully applied for a COST research network subsidy.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale07 May 2014
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University ...
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Tazuko van Berkel receives 260 year old prize29 April 2014
The 260 year old prize of the Legatum Stolpianum has been awarded in 2014 to two well written historical studies of high quality and with current sign...
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Jessica Roitman accepted for prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute18 March 2014Jessica Roitman accepted for the prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute.
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Daniela Merolla qualified with ‘Habilitation’06 March 2014
The "Habilitation"(HDR) is the highest qualification that a researcher can achieve in France and qualifies the researcher to supervise doctoral candid...
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans12 February 2014
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survi...
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Bert Mooiman receives NWO doctoral scholarship27 January 2014
On 20 December 2013, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that 37 teachers will be conducting doctoral research funded...