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Statement in response to brief squat of UvA’s Student Services building
30 Apr 2015
The following statement was issued by the Executive Board in response to the brief squat of the UvA’s Student Services building at the Binnengasthuisstraat.
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Johan van Benthem elected member of American Academy
30 Apr 2015
Johan van Benthem, emeritus university professor of Pure and Applied Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), was recently elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Keetje Hodshon award for Claire Weeda
30 Apr 2015
Claire Weeda will receive the Keetje Hodshon Award for her dissertation 'Images of Ethnicity in Later Medieval Europe' and other publications.
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UvA programmes rise in latest QS World University Rankings
29 Apr 2015
In the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Communication & Media Studies are ranked 8th globally. Last year these subject areas, which are bundled by QS, were ranked in 10th place. Several ...
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Signers and non-signers universally able to distinguish verb categories in sign languages
28 Apr 2015
Sign languages, even those that are unrelated, encode inherent meaning components of verbs in such a way that even non-signers can extract these meanings. This is one of the surprising results of research conducted ...
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Results of works council elections
21 Apr 2015
Works council elections took place from 7-14 April. In a public meeting on Monday, 20 April, the Central Voting Office confirmed the election results.
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Press statement UvA-AUAS/HvA Executive Board
20 Apr 2015
The Executive Board would like to thank the Supervisory Boards for their enormous efforts and the speed and assiduousness with which they have drawn conclusions and taken decisions. The broad support makes it ...
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Press statement Supervisory Boards
19 Apr 2015
Today, the Supervisory Boards held talks about the current situation with the Executive Board, the deans, the domain chairs and the representative advisory bodies of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...
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Statement Supervisory Boards
19 Apr 2015
The following statement was issued by the Supervisory Boards following the decision by Louise Gunning to tender her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...
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President UvA Executive Board tenders resignation
19 Apr 2015
Yesterday evening, Louise Gunning tendered her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to the Supervisory Boards.
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Supervisory Board statement
17 Apr 2015
The following statement is from the Supervisory Board, following the Joint Meeting of the Central Works Council (COR) and the Central Student Council (CSR):
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Decision to evict Maagdenhuis occupiers
13 Apr 2015
We realise that questions exist about our decision this past Friday to observe the ruling of the court and formally request the police to vacate the Maagdenuis building. In the following letter, we would like to ...
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Maagdenhuis vacated
11 Apr 2015
After six weeks, the police made an end to the Maagdenhuis occupation this morning. Yesterday, the district court ordered the occupiers to immediately vacate the building. After the judge’s ruling, the UvA observed ...
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Judge rules that occupiers must leave the Maagdenhuis
10 Apr 2015
The interim relief judge of Amsterdam’s district court has decided that the occupiers of the Maagdenhuis must leave the building immediately and that for safety reasons the planned festival must be cancelled.
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Update: Maagdenhuis
8 Apr 2015
In recent weeks, a number of concerns have been raised within the academic community. The Executive Board has taken note of these concerns and has presented a 10-point plan to address them.
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ACLC Researcher Sible Andringa has won the Albert Valdman Award
8 Apr 2015
The Use of Native Speaker Norms in Critical Period Hypothesis Research
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ACLC Researcher Katerina Chládková has been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant
1 Apr 2015
When perceiving the surrounding world, humans attend to multiple pieces of information (individual properties of objects, or cues), and perceptually integrate them to identify familiar objects as a whole. For speech, ...
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ACLC Researcher Frank Seifart has been awarded a Volkswagen foundation DoBeS grant
1 Apr 2015
When people speak, they constantly speed up and slow down, i.e. they modulate their articulation speed. At what particular points in discourse do these modulations occur and why?
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Honorary Doctorate awarded to Professor Emily Hemelrijk
31 Mar 2015
The Faculty Board of Arts at the University of Gothenburg has decided to appoint Prof. Emily Hemelrijk (Ancient History, UvA) to be Honorary Doctor of Philosophy.
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Update power failure: exams and classes
27 Mar 2015
A major power outage this morning (Friday, 27 March) has hit large parts of the province of North Holland and Amsterdam in particular. The UvA’s Science Park and IWO were without power. Both locations have been ...
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