Experience Days 7 - 16 December
Come to the Experience Days and find out if a degree programme is right for you.
University of Amsterdam
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UvA introduces improvements to registration of professors’ ancillary activities
The UvA has adopted an action plan to improve the mandatory registration of the ancillary activities of professors. The plan follows an internal audit into the current registration system, the outcome of which was ... -
Ukraine: information and support
The UvA is monitoring the situation in the affected areas and wants to offer support for staff and students who are affected by the war.
News
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Fireworks have long-lasting effects on wild birds
An international team of scientists has examined the long-term effects of fireworks on wild birds, by GPS-tracking Arctic migratory geese for three weeks over the New Year period in Germany, Denmark and the ... -
NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies. This is shown in five new articles by an international team of scientists, including ... -
Should marketing unhealthy food and drink to children be banned?
Students of the Amsterdam Law School of the UvA looked at legal options for curbing the marketing of unhealthy foods to children. During the Law & Policy Clinic they mapped out the possibilities. -
Synthetic black holes radiate like real ones
Research led by the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated that elusive radiation coming from black holes can be studied by mimicking it in the lab. -
Chemicals Could Undercut Global Plastics Treaty
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay— From 28 November to 2 December the United Nations intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution will meet in Uruguay. ... -
Unique discovery: 17th century through a woman’s eyes
A unique source about 17th century Northern Netherlands has surfaced by chance in a Belgian family archive. The plain-looking book contains a wealth of detailed information about daily life in the 17th century, seen ... -
Global distributive justice and systemic transformations key to planetary stability, study finds
In a new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth and led by the University of Amsterdam, investigates the Earth ... -
Honours module with a public podcast as lecture format
In the Netherlands, we have no tradition of fantasy stories, though we can learn a lot by escaping to and thinking about fantasy worlds. Indeed, fantasy could well be the key to a better society, and the flexible ... -
Make small changes for yourself and transform society
Groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, such as in her book Race after Technology, is what Professor Ruha Benjamin has been known for. Being used to focus on big structural changes, the Covid-19 ...