The UvA has taken note of the sad news that physicist and Nobel Prize winner Martinus Veltman passed away on Monday, 4 January, at the age of 89. Veltman was a professor at Utrecht University and the University of Michigan[…]
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2021 - 2026 strategic plan: inspiring generations
UvA NewsJan 7, 2021
At the beginning of this year the Executive Board (CvB) established its Strategic Plan for 2021 – 2026, entitled Inspiring generations. This states what is needed to maintain and expand our position as a university: how we can work on[…]
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From sticky mess to plant-based chair
UvA NewsJan 6, 2021
‘Such a thing doesn't exist,’ UvA researchers Gadi Rothenberg and Albert Alberts repeatedly heard when they accidentally discovered 100% bioplastic in 2010. Now ten years later, in collaboration with furniture manufacturer VepaDrentea, they have created a chair made entirely from[…]
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Brains that remain
UvA NewsJan 4, 2021
There is a war for talent raging within the field of AI, with young researchers being lured away by big tech companies. Yet there are also talents who consciouslychoose anacademic career. Two professors and two rising stars talk about their[…]
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Explanation of actions pertaining to social safety: update
UvA NewsDec 23, 2020
It has become increasingly clear over the past year that the safeguards put in within the UvA for the purposes of flagging up and subsequently addressing lack of social safety need to be tightened up.
Startschuss für EU-Projekt: PAGE21 schließt Lücke im Verständnis des Klimasystems, November 7, 2011- AWI website
Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century: EU project launch of "PAGE21", November 7, 2011 - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology website