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• Marie Curie Fellowships awarded to thirteen UvA researchers

  20 Mar 2015

  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship has been awarded to thirteen researchers for research projects at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The projects will focus, among other things, on sexual communication between ...

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• Update: 10-point plan

  20 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will set up a committee to develop proposals for modernising the way the UvA is governed. In addition, a committee of inquiry will look at the UvA’s finances, together with its real ...

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• UvA wins EP-Nuffic prize for Ambassador Programme

  19 Mar 2015

  During the EP-Nuffic Annual Conference on 12 March, the Orange Carpet Award for higher education was awarded to the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for its Global Exchange Ambassador Programme. EP-Nuffic has created ...

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• ABC grant awarded to Paul Lucassen and Liesbeth Reneman

  17 Mar 2015

  Prof. dr Paul Lucassen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) has been awarded a €250.000,- project grant together with Dr Liesbeth Reneman (AMC) by Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center for their project: 'Detecting ...

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• Register for the ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015

  16 Mar 2015

  The ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015 will be presented to a young academic with an original and exciting research proposal that centres around the aspects of creativity, cognition and/or the workings of the human brain. ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  13 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 16 March, the third meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place.

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• UvA climbs in latest THE World Reputation Rankings

  12 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen in the latest THE World Reputation Rankings 2015 and is now placed in the 51-60 group.

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Dynamic Analysis Seminar

  6 Mar 2015

  Talking about their research is an important activity for mathematicians, but an audience of five colleagues is just too small. And so, every two weeks, UvA researchers and their VU colleagues come together to attend ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  6 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 9 March, the second meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The discussion will take place in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to ...

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• Photanol and AkzoNobel collaboration wins Bio Business Award 2015

  3 Mar 2015

  The collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA) spin-off company Photanol and the chemical group AkzoNobel has been awarded the WBM Bio Business Award 2015 in the category of Bio-based Chemical ...

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• Horizon 2020 grant links nanotechnology with art

  3 Mar 2015

  Dr Katrien Keune of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has received a European H2020 grant within the NANORESTART programme (NANOmaterials for the RESToration works of ART).

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• PhD in the spotlight: Sander Oldenhof

  3 Mar 2015

  Sander Oldenhof (1985) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 10 March. As part of his doctoral research at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), Oldenhof ...

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• Update: UvA Maagdenhuis

  2 Mar 2015

  For the moment, there is no intention to evacuate the Maagdenhuis.

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• Making Analytically Incompatible Approaches Compatible

  2 Mar 2015

  An innovative research project in the analytical sciences has received substantial funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO. The MAnIAC project, led by Prof. Peter Schoenmakers of the Van ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  27 Feb 2015

  On Monday, 2 March, the first of a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The first meeting will be held in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to 14:30.

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• Amsterdam Data Science receives AAA funding

  27 Feb 2015

  Amsterdam Data Science has received an investment from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) following a decision by the Executive Boards of VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

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• Cees de Laat heads KLM-COMMIT/ research into cyber attacks

  27 Feb 2015

  Prof. Cees de Laat, researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Informatics Institute, will head research into how cyber attacks can be automatically deterred by internet service provider consortiums and business ...

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• Livestream agenda-setting meeting at REC

  26 Feb 2015

  Watch the livestream of the agenda-setting meeting at Roeterseiland.

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• Update: agenda-setting meeting 26 February

  26 Feb 2015

  Because of increased interest, today’s agenda-setting meeting will be moved from CREA to REC C 1.04 to enable more people to attend. The meeting is meant table subjects for discussion with the Executive Board.

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• Student member in UvA Executive Board

  26 Feb 2015

  The UvA’s Supervisory Board has unanimously approved a proposal to appoint a student member to the Executive Board and faculty management. The deans also unanimously support the proposal.

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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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