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UvA once again ranked best Dutch university in QS World University Rankings
16 Sept 2014
For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the highest placed Dutch university in the QS World University Rankings. The UvA has also risen in the overall rankings and now holds the 50th ...
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Three graduate schools receive NWO grants for young academic talent
4 Sept 2014
Three research schools with which the UvA is involved are each to receive 850,000 euros for the development of young academic talent. The schools concerned are the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, Yield, ...
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UvA celebrates opening academic year with eye on Africa
3 Sept 2014
On Monday, 1 September, the University of Amsterdam celebrated the opening of the 2014-2015 Academic Year. Various speakers reflected on this year’s theme: 'Amsterdam in the wider world: Africa’.
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ACLC's Jeannette Schaeffer has been appointed Professor of Language Acquisition
18 Aug 2014
Jeannette Schaeffer investigates the acquisition of language by children (with and without language impairments) and, more recently, also by adults. By comparing language acquisition patterns of different languages ...
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UvA to receive record number of Veni grants
31 July 2014
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants to twenty-eight recent doctoral recipients, enabling them to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) or the UvA's ...
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Research on 19th Century sculpture in the Netherlands
29 July 2014
Art historian Hanna Klarenbeek to lead research project on the 'dark age' of Dutch sculpture. So far virtually no research has been done into 19th-century sculpture.
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TEDxAmsterdam Award 2014
24 July 2014
The Technology Transfer Office UvA-AUAS-AMC is pleased to invite you, on behalf of Amsterdam Science Park and all of its scientific institutes, to participate in the TEDxAmsterdam Award 2014. Amsterdam Science Park ...
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Day of National Mourning at the UvA
23 July 2014
Today, the Netherlands mourns for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster. This tragic event has also robbed the UvA of two of its researchers, a student and, as far as is known, one of its graduates. To ...
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ACLC Researcher Roland Pfau has been awarded an NWO Free Competition Grant
21 July 2014
Argument structure in three sign languages: typological and theoretical aspects
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Message in connection with the Malaysia Airlines aircraft disaster
21 July 2014
With deep sadness and disbelief, we have learnt that UvA/AMC staff members Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren, UvA student Sascha Meijer and UvA alumnus Laurens van der Graaff were on board the Malaysia Airlines ...
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Joep Lange (1954-2014)
19 July 2014
Joep Lange, professor of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam, was one of the most prominent professionals in his field – a person who inspired many and managed to change the world through his unwavering commitment.
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New PhD Candidates at ASHMS
17 July 2014
The 2014 PhD selection committee awarded two fellowships: to Dana Dolghin and Laura Boerhout (NWO fellowship).
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Malaga Prize of Essay for Cristian Crusat
4 July 2014
Cristian Crusat Schretzmeyer (Spain, 1983) recently completed his PhD, under the supervision of Professor Ieme van der Poel and Dr Pablo Valdivia, at the University of Amsterdam. Crusat was member of ASCA and the ...
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Multi-million euro grant for large-scale research facilities
3 July 2014
Three teams of scientists, including several from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), have been awarded a total of €39.2 million to establish or improve large-scale research facilities. The investment, which is part ...
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12 million euros for digital infrastructure for the Humanities
2 July 2014
New digital tools will enable researchers to explore profound questions of cultural and social change across the disciplines. The field of media studies in this project is represented by UvA Humanities scholars José ...
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5 Vacancies in the ERC Research Project 'From Made in China to Created in China'
1 July 2014
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the Faculty of Humanities is looking for four PhD and one postdoctoral candidates in the fields of Media Studies, Cultural Studies or Area Studies. The candidates will be ...
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Martijn Wokke wins 2014 Creative Mind Prize
19 June 2014
Martijn Wokke, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Amsterdam, has been named winner of the 2014 Creative Mind Prize for his research proposal ‘Unleashing creativity by decreasing prefrontal control’. ...
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Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe
10 June 2014
László Marácz and his collaborators have landed a European research project to study the mobility and linguistic diversity of the modern-day inhabitants of the 'Old Continent.' MIME (Mobility and Inclusion in ...
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Dutch legacy had major impact on Brazil
5 June 2014
The Dutch presence in Brazil during the 17th century had a major impact on the whole of the New World. In 'The Legacy of Dutch Brazil', twelve international academics explain why. University of Amsterdam (UvA) ...
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Newly published: The Landscape of Consumption
2 June 2014
This volume brings together research on retailing and shopping and their embeddedness in urban space, themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades.
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