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• Update: Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building. The door was forced open and a member of security assaulted. The Executive Board has laid formal charges.

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• Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building.

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• Statement Executive Board on Bungehuis eviction

  24 Feb 2015

  Issued by Louise J. Gunning-Schepers, president of the Executive Board

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• Executive Board regrets failed talks with Bungehuis protestors

  24 Feb 2015

  Talks between Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, the UvA’s Executive Board and the Bungehuis protestors have failed.

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• Horizon 2020 Grant for Dariu Gavrila

  23 Feb 2015

  Prof. Dariu Gavrila of the Informatics Institute received a H2020 grant for the PROSPECT project. PROSPECT (PROactive Safety for PEdestrians and CyclisTs) addresses vulnerable road user safety in the context of ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Bacterial Cell Biology

  19 Feb 2015

  VU University’s Dr Joen Luirink studies processes in bacterial cell envelopes. One of his projects focuses on a protein complex that plays a crucial role in the division of bacteria. Cell division is also the focus ...

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• The 10th Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award: take part!

  19 Feb 2015

  € 10,000 for most innovative and useful idea with commercial or societal impact

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• Giulia De Luca (SILS) wins Upcoming Scientist Award at Innovation for Health 2015

  17 Feb 2015

  Giulia De Luca, PhD candidate with the Molecular Cytology group at the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS), won the Upcoming Scientist Award at the Innovation for Health conference held in Amsterdam in ...

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• Three Faculty of Science researcher amongst Vici recipients

  17 Feb 2015

  Biologist Frank Takken (Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences) and physicists Florian Schreck (Institute of Physics, IoP) Femius Koenderink (IoP and FOM-institute AMOLF), all affiliated with the Faculty of Science ...

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• UvA to take part in Holland Scholarship

  16 Feb 2015

  The Holland Scholarship, a newly created Dutch scholarship programme, was officially launched on Monday, 16 February. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will be one of the participating institutions in the programme, ...

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• Getting 2 for 1: 'bonus' electrons in germanium nanocrystals can lead to better solar cells

  13 Feb 2015

  Researchers of the UvA's Institute of Physics, Foundation FOM, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals produce ...

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• Vici grant awarded to five UvA researchers

  13 Feb 2015

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a prestigious Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to five researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• Horizon 2020 Grant for Leo Dorst

  12 Feb 2015

  Dr Leo Dorst of the Informatcs Institute (research section: Intelligent Autonomous Systems) has obtained a H2020 grant for the GRAVITATE project: Ancient BRoken Artifacts CAn DigitAlly Be ReAssembled (ABRACADABRA). ...

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• Kordes Award for 2013 UvA Annual Report

  11 Feb 2015

  The University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) 2013 Annual Report has been awarded the 2014 Deloitte Kordes Award in the category education. The Kordes Award, which is named after the former president of the Court of Audit, was ...

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• Joost Frenken appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at VU and the UvA

  10 Feb 2015

  Prof. Joost Frenken (director of the ARCNL) has been appointed professor of Nanoscale Surface Physics at both VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• First proof of dark matter in innermost region of Milky Way

  9 Feb 2015

  An international team of researchers, which includes UvA physicist Gianfranco Bertone, has obtained the first observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, where our own ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: SOLARDAM

  9 Feb 2015

  The year started auspiciously for SOLARDAM: two years after its founding, the consortium received seed capital for eight postdocs. The initiators are anxious for them to start as soon as they can. 'We're all ...

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• PhD-candidate University of Amsterdam ‘gives face to science’

  6 Feb 2015

  Physicist Hugo Doeleman, PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Physics (IoP) and FOM-institute AMOLF is one of the new young researchers featured on the website Faces of Science. In his first ...

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• Take-off grant for alternative bioplastics

  4 Feb 2015

  Professor Gadi Rothenberg of the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry was awarded a first-phase valorisation grant by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) to try and bring to market the innovation of ...

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• Horizon 2020 Grants for Faculty of Science researchers

  3 Feb 2015

  Horizon 2020, the EU programme for research and innovation, has granted three Faculty of Science projects a total of more than EUR 1.5 million. These projects are concerned with large-scale database applications ...

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• Computer Science students successfully conduct web archeology

  3 Feb 2015

  A student team from the Master’s joint UvA-VU programme Computer Science succeeded in unlocking a unique piece of web archeology. For the course History of Digital Cultures they sank their teeth into Amsterdam’s ...

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• Anna’s Garden and Thicket nominated for best green initiative North Holland

  3 Feb 2015

  Anna’s Garden and Thicket, the nature- and horticultural area to be developed on Amsterdam Science Park, is nominated for the ‘Golden Bittern’: a prize for the best green initiative in the North Holland province. The ...

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• PhD in the spotlight: Jamie McLaren

  3 Feb 2015

  Canadian national Jamie McLaren will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 4 February. McLaren studied bird migration as a part of his doctoral research at the Institute for ...

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• In search of the origins of musicality

  2 Feb 2015

  Why do we have music? And what enables us to perceive, appreciate and make music? The search for a possible answer to these and other questions forms the backdrop to a soon-to-be released theme issue of Philosophical ...

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• Successful seminar on Solar Fuel Future

  29 Jan 2015

  "Our catalysts can beat nature" stated professor Licheng Sun from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology KTH. Sun was invited by the John van Geuns foundation for a mini symposium on Solar Fuel Future. It was ...

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• Molecules shed light on the secrets of friction

  29 Jan 2015

  Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have developed a new microscopy method that enables the visualization of nanoscale contacts between two ...

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• Amirhossein Habibian elected best Iranian engineering student in Europe

  29 Jan 2015

  Amirhossein Habibian, PhD student at the Informatics Institute, is elected as the best Iranian engineering student in Europe. The prize is awarded yearly by the Iranian government to reward academic excellence among ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling

  27 Jan 2015

  In 2007, chemists Evert Jan Baerends of VU University Amsterdam and Daan Frenkel of the University of Amsterdam decided it made sense for the two universities to collaborate more closely in the field of molecular ...

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• Bednets and malaria vaccines not always good combination in fight against malaria

  27 Jan 2015

  The use of malaria vaccines combined with a bednet can be counter-productive in some cases and can even exacerbate the problem. This follows research carried out by an international team led by Yael Artzy-Randrup ...

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• Jan de Boer new member of FOM's Executive Board

  25 Jan 2015

  As per 1 January 2015 IoP professor Jan de Boer has taken up a seat as member of the Executive Board of the FOM Foundation. He was already member of the Board of Directors as of 1 May 2014. He succeeds professor ...

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