Gold Medal for Dr Jitse van Dijk
During the opening of the Academic Year on Monday 17 September 2012, Dr Jitse van Dijk was presented with the Gold Medal from the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovak Republic) for the many years of highly successful cooperation.
Dr Jitse van Dijk (Graduate School SHARE/ Public Health Research) has been taking an active part in the collaboration with Košice since 1995 by helping to devise research and education programmes and supervising PhD students. The PhD students work largely in Košice, but the PhD is always awarded in Groningen. Eleven PhD students have defended their theses since the start of the collaboration in 1995. October and December of this year will see another 4, and 13 more PhD students are expected to follow in their predecessors’ footsteps by 2015/16. The vast majority of them continue to work at the P.J. Šafárik University or the Košice University Hospital...read more
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