UvA flags at half-mast after incident at Erasmus MC
The UvA is shocked by the shooting in Rotterdam on Thursday, September 28, in which a student from Erasmus University Rotterdam shot and killed three people in and around the Erasmus MC.
Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain. With education and research in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, logic and computer science, we are fully immersed in the entire spectrum of the sciences.
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UvA honorary doctorates for Folkert Jensma and Zeynep Tufekci
The University of Amsterdam will award honorary doctorates to journalist/columnist Folkert Jensma and sociologist/writer Zeynep Tufekci. Jensma will receive the honorary doctorate for his significant journalistic ... -
Two HIMS spin-off companies compete for Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2023
Spin-off companies LumetalliX and Nano Hybrids of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have been selected among the pre-finalists of the Amsterdam Science Innovation Awards 2023. A public vote helps to ... -
Nanoconfined water clusters observed in zinc white oil paint
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Jorien Duivenvoorden points out the relevance of aqueous chemistry when studying oil paint ageing and degradation. Duivenvoorden, a PhD student ... -
There is much to improve in identifying all the chemicals around us
What chemicals are we exposed to on a daily basis? That is the central question of ‘non-targeted analysis’ or NTA, an emerging field of analytical science that aims to identify all chemicals around us. A daunting ... -
Andrea Gargano receives Open Competition M2 grant for immunoglobulin analysis
Dr Andrea Gargano of the research group Analytical Chemistry together with Dr Elena Dominguez Vega of the Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics at Leiden University Medical Center have been awarded an NWO Open ... -
Gearing up towards light-switchable drugs
Molecules that change shape under the influence of light can be used as switches in biomedical applications, for instance to inhibit an enzyme. An international team of researchers, including chemists at the ... -
New x-ray telescope XRISM launched successfully
Early Thursday morning, Sept. 7, the Japanese Space Agency successfully launched a new X-ray telescope: XRISM. Now, XRISM is at the end of its critical period, and the calibration phase has begun. There is a Dutch ... -
Leon van de Zande appointed secretary general of the university
The Executive Board has appointed Leon van de Zande as secretary general of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with effect from 23 October 2023. Van de Zande is currently a strategy & governance advisor at ACTA, the ... -
Most nitrogen from farms goes into the ‘nitrogen blanket'; direct deposition is very local
On behalf of the Mesdag Zuivelfonds, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have measured within which radius around dairy farms the nitrogen emitted by the farm is deposited. By far the largest part of the ...
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