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Rubicon for psychologist Barbara Braams 01 July 2016
Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has moved to Harvard University to study social influences on adolescents’ decision making in risky and ambi...
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep 27 June 2016
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research projec...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins award for publication on psychodermatology 24 May 2016
Sylvia van Beugen has won the Herman Musaph Literature award 2016 for the best publication about psychodermatology. Her publication describes the impo...
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Vera de Regt wins Photo Contest Antropology 2016 28 April 2016
Bachelor student Vera de Regt received the first prize in the Anthropology Photo Contest 'Street Life' with her photo 'Girlpower in USA river' of Tanz...
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Jan Erk elected Smuts Memorial Fellow at Cambridge University 28 April 2016
Jan Erk, political scientist at Leiden University, has been selected as the 2016-2017 Smuts Memorial Fellow at the University of Cambridge. During his...
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Zsuzsa Bakk winner of PhD Dissertation Award 11 April 2016
Zsuzsa Bakk has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Classification Society for her thesis entitled 'Contr...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Bernhard Hommel 31 March 2016
Prof. Bernhard Hommel has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). With this grant of 2.5 million euros the cognitive ps...
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Leiden Political Science and International Studies rank highly 24 March 2016
Leiden University’s Political Science and International Studies programmes continue to enjoy a solid academic reputation. In the 2016 QS World Univers...
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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 2016 15 March 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Mui...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone 19 January 2016
Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that yo...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...
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Dies Natalis 2016 04 January 2016
Leiden University will celebrate its 441st anniversary on Monday 8 February 2016 in the Leiden Pieterskerk. Everyone is welcome to attend or follow th...
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Hall of Fame 2015 24 December 2015
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, t...
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Marieke Slootman wins NSV Dissertation Prize 2015 27 November 2015
Anthropologist Marieke Slootman received the NSV Dissertation Prize 2015 for her dissertation on ethnic identification among Moroccan and Turkish Dutch.
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Boyd Leupen wins MSc Thesis Prize 2015 02 November 2015
Boyd Leupen has won the Institute of Political Science MSc Thesis Prize 2015. With 'Refuting asymmetrical Kantianism: On the moral standing of animals...