Vrije Universiteit Brussel researchers receive funding from the
Foundation against Cancer
At the Foundation against Cancer's official research award ceremony
on 18 February several researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
were honoured for their work. You can read all about it here.
Vinciane Vanderheyde's 'Formacom' project receives ' European Language
Label Award for Innovative Language Teaching and Learning 2004'
Vinciane Vanderheyde, lecturer in French and Spanish at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel has received the European Label for innovative
projects in language teaching and learning for the Formacom project,
for which she is general coordinator, educational coordinator and
instructor. The label recognises examples of good practice in promoting
quality in language training for adults. FORMACOM stands for Formation/communication.
It is an original and successful continuing education programme
for the teaching of French in Flanders, set up and financed by the
French Embassy and the Education Department of the Flemish Communities,
in cooperation with all the educational networks in Flanders, the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ghent University, the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (IDLO), and the Centre d'Approches vivantes des Langues
et des Médias (CAVILAM) in Vichy.
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas invited to prestigious Gordon Research Conference
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel's Biology
Department, was invited to attend one of the most prominent international
academic forums, the Gordon Research Conference on Past Ecosystem
Processes and Human-Environment Interactions (California), to give
a keynote presentation on mangrove research in the Biology department
at our university. Given that the Gordon Research Conferences clearly
operates a strict and elitist approach to attendance at each conference
(restricted to 135 world-wide experts), this invitation can certainly
be seen as recognition of the research work undertaken by Farid
and her team. 
Griet Neukermans receives 2004 Marine Science incentive prize
Former student Griet Neukermans has received the 2004 Marine Science
incentive prize from the Flemish marine institute VLIZ for her thesis
'Remote sensing or mangroves in Gazi Bay (Kenya) with very high
resolution QuickBird satellite imagery: automated methods for species
and assemblage identification'. This prize was also awarded to a
student of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel two years ago, when it
went to Sarah Collin (MSc. Ecological Marine Management 2002) for
her thesis on ethno-biology.
Professor Marc Noppen is Associate Editor of two leading journals
in pneumology and bronchoscopy
In 2004 Professor Marc Noppen, Chief Clinician for lung diseases
at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel's general hospital, was appointed
as Associate Editor of two leading journals in pneumology and bronchoscopy,
'Respiration' and 'Journal of Bronchoscopy'
