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UvA celebrates opening academic year with eye on Africa
3 Sept 2014
On Monday, 1 September, the University of Amsterdam celebrated the opening of the 2014-2015 Academic Year. Various speakers reflected on this year’s theme: 'Amsterdam in the wider world: Africa’.
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Soon it will be be possible to park your bicycle ón the canal itself
12 Aug 2014
Next Thursday, 14 August 2014, the pontoons that will serve as bicycle parking spaces on the Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus in the coming years will be hoisted into the canal.
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Lowlands University presents: Ewald Engelen, Frank Linde and Wouter Vansteelant
11 Aug 2014
Coolpolitics and Lowlands will give a stage to science at Lowlands 2014. At Lowlands University, UvA researchers Ewald Engelen, Frank Linde and Wouter Vansteeland will give lectures on global inequality, the Higgs ...
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TEDxAmsterdam Award 2014
24 July 2014
The Technology Transfer Office UvA-AUAS-AMC is pleased to invite you, on behalf of Amsterdam Science Park and all of its scientific institutes, to participate in the TEDxAmsterdam Award 2014. Amsterdam Science Park ...
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Student Service Desk opens on 4 August on Roeterseiland
24 July 2014
The Student Service Desk on the Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus will open on Monday, 4 August. The desk brings together the services of the current Service and Information Centre (SIC) and the Student Desk for the ...
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Day of National Mourning at the UvA
23 July 2014
Today, the Netherlands mourns for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster. This tragic event has also robbed the UvA of two of its researchers, a student and, as far as is known, one of its graduates. To ...
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Message in connection with the Malaysia Airlines aircraft disaster
21 July 2014
With deep sadness and disbelief, we have learnt that UvA/AMC staff members Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren, UvA student Sascha Meijer and UvA alumnus Laurens van der Graaff were on board the Malaysia Airlines ...
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Library Learning Centre Roeterseiland Campus to open on 1 September
14 July 2014
A number of libraries and study centres have permanently closed their doors.
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Call for papers: Ernst & Young Quantitative Finance Thesis Award
9 July 2014
Master’s students studying in any Dutch MSc programme are invited to submit high-quality theses for the Ernst & Young ‘Best Quant Thesis Award’.
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'Tropler' wins minor Entrepreneurship Spring 2014
4 July 2014
In the competition for the ‘Best Student Company of the minor in Entrepreneurship, the Tropler team won both the jury prize and the public prize.
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Farewell Gala 2014
2 July 2014
The second edition of the official Farewell Gala for graduating international bachelor's and master's students in Economics and Business was held on Thursday, 26 June 2014.
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Winner of 2013 H.K. Nieuwenhuis Thesis Award
2 July 2014
This year’s H.K. Nieuwenhuis thesis award took place on Thursday 26 June in the Artis Koningszaal. The award was presented by Prof. Willemijn van Dolen to the winner, Economics student Bart Staats.
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Orbis company database
1 July 2014
The University of Amsterdam has recently subscribed to the database Orbis. Orbis (global data) replaces the database Amadeus (Europe only). Amadeus will still be available in Wharton WRDS.
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Van Wijnbergen on Piketty: misinterpretation leads to wrong interventions
1 July 2014
UvA professor Sweder van Wijnbergen of the Amsterdam School of Economics has known Thomas Piketty’s work for quite some time. Piketty is the French professor who has acquired a kind of rock star status with his book ...
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Huawei and UvA launch 'Telecom Seeds for the Future' programme
17 June 2014
Huawei, a global ICT solutions provider, and the University of Amsterdam have joined forces to offer the first ‘Telecom Seeds for the Future’ programme in the Netherlands.
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Room for Discussion welcomes Gerrit Zalm
4 June 2014
On Thursday, 5 June, ABN AMRO CEO Gerrit Zalm will be a guest on Room for Discussion, the discussion platform for economics students at the University of Amsterdam. The former Minister of Finance was appointed to the ...
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Student satisfaction increases in all areas
26 May 2014
Student satisfaction at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has increased with regard to almost all aspects of their degree programmes, according to the 2014 National Student Survey (Nationale Studenten Enquête, NSE). ...
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The New York Times 1851-2010 digital
23 May 2014
A century and a half of articles from the influential American daily newspaper is now fully searchable.
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Better use of study spaces in the University Library at Singel
14 May 2014
The Central Student Council (CSR) and the Library agree that a more efficient use must be made of the 350 study spaces in the University Library at Singel.
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Two Economics & Business students nominated for UvA Thesis Prize
30 Apr 2014
Jacobien van Apeldoorn and Valeria Burdea (both enrolled in the MSc Economics programme) are two of the eleven students nominated for the UvA Thesis Prize. This award will be presented to the winner on University ...
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