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8 unusual facts about Katholieke Universiteit Leuven


H. Narayan Murthy

After securing his Master's degree in psychology from University of Mysore, H.N.Murthy gained admission into "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" or the "Catholic University of Leuven", Belgium to pursue his doctoral studies in psychology for the award of a PhD.His subject chosen was "Causality in Experimental Psychology".

Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) is an interdisciplinary centre based at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven.

ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics

The journal is published twice a year by the Department of Linguistics at the K.U.Leuven, the Department of Applied Linguistics of the VLEKHO (Brussels) and the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Lessius Hogeschool (Antwerp).

Jan Pieter Schotte

From 1953 to 1956 he studied canon law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and from 1962 to 1963 at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC.

Louvain

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or Louvain, a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium

Papyrus 84

It is currently housed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Library (P. A. M. Khirbet Mird, Greek 1-3; formerly P. A. M. Khirbet Mird 4, 11, 26, 27).

Raymond Dwek

Dwek has received the degree of Doctoris Honoris Causa from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1996), Ben Gurion University, Israel (2001), The Scripps Research Institute, USA.

Seat of Wisdom

More recently, sedes sapientiae is for example the motto of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain, founded when Latin still was the academic lingua franca.


Judith Declercq

She was also a teacher and one of the founders at 'Hoger Instituut voor Verpleegkunde' at Kortrijk, a college associated to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Mercator Telescope

The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2m telescope, operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven University), Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva.

Noel B. Salazar

Salazar studied psychology, philosophy, and development studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), neuropsychology at the University of Essex (UK), and anthropology and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania (US).

Roel Sterckx

Sterckx was a pupil at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Mol (Belgium) and was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University, University of Cambridge (Clare Hall; Ph.D 1997) and University of Oxford (Wolfson College).

Sagalassos

Large-scale excavations started in 1990 under the direction of Marc Waelkens of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

From 1990 Sagalassos, a major tourist site, has become a major excavation project led by Marc Waelkens of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Staf Van Reet

He obtained a degree of engineering in Applied Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a Law degree from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

XSB

XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.


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