On Friday 18 September, the whole of Amsterdam will be tidying up the city. For the fifth edition of Amsterdam Cleanup Day, thousands of Amsterdammers will take to the streets to pick up litter. The UvA is taking part again.
Shortly before the summer, the UvA-wide Policy Framework for External Collaboration was adopted. This framework sets out the principles on which the policy for collaboration and its ethical assessment have been developed. It also defines the roles and responsibilities of all those involved and provides guidance for developing faculty-level policies on collaboration with third parties.
Nearly a century after they were first recorded, songs, poems and dances from East Flores returned this month to the communities where they were once documented. The restitution project, led by UvA musicologist Barbara Titus, shows that archives only truly gain meaning in dialogue with the people whose heritage they contain.
Italy responded to events in Ceuta by imposing border controls on travellers arriving from Spain. Germany has once again extended its controversial border controls. Schengen promises free movement across Europe, yet temporary border checks are becoming increasingly common. According to political scientist Lisa Herbig, these measures do more than create queues and missed train connections for EU citizens; they can also erode trust in political actors and fuel hostility towards migrants.
The first cell fate decision of a fertilized mammalian egg is a core scientific issue in developmental biology and is also relevant to embryo quality assessment in assisted reproduction. Although previous studies have revealed that the two-cell stage non-coding RNA LincGET mediates fate bias, the key protein factors that regulate this process have not yet been identified.
Recently, the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has conducted research on the problem of determining the surface geometric parameters of the coronal magnetic field source. It analyzed the forward and inverse problems of the potential field source surface model (PFSS) from the perspective of free boundary problems and shape optimization, and combined with the near-solar in-situ observations of the PSP satellite to construct a source surface radius optimization algorithm. This study used ACE satellite observations for independent verification to reveal the overall trend of optimal source surface radius changes with solar activity and the trade-off relationship between different observation indicators.
Recently, the Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the research of high-performance molybdenum alloys. By designing a solid-state reaction, the research team used HfB 2 to react with impurity oxygen in molybdenum powder to form high-density, highly thermally stable and evenly distributed nano-Hf particles inside the molybdenum grains. This solved the problem of traditional dispersed particles being prone to agglomeration and coarsening, and achieved a synergistic improvement in the strength, plasticity and high-temperature stability of molybdenum alloys.
The long-term future of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute has been secured with a landmark agreement that will bolster South Australia's global health and medical research capabilities.
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On August 4, Chancellor Khosla testified before California’s Select Committee on Native American Affairs and Joint Legislative Audit Committee alongside representatives from the University of California.
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Dr. Sam Ward is currently transitioning away from his role as vice dean for research in the School of Medicine and is a professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Radiology in the School of Medicine and Bioengineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering.
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Until now there was an upper limit to the energy produced by atoms irradiated with laser light. Now UC San Diego researchers have crossed the threshold using helium atoms and intense UV lasers.
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David and Claire Guggenheim have donated $2 million to the University of California San Diego to establish the David and Claire Guggenheim Gallery, a space within the Strauss Family Gallery, an arts destination taking shape in the university’s new Triton Center.
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers including computer scientists at UC San Diego has been awarded a $37.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a center aimed at designing practical and self-correcting quantum computers from top to bottom,.
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A researcher in the field of materials, Patrick Charbonneau joins the Courtois Institute team with an Eddie Goldenberg Canada Research Chair with a budget of eight million.
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Celebrating two decades of impact, the University of Minnesota’s Program in Health Disparities Research (PHDR) transformed community-engaged research from an overlooked initiative into a mainstream academic standard, redefining institutional excellence, trust, and research funding along the way.
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Miles Lasater caught the entrepreneurship bug early in life. Growing up in San Francisco, both of his parents started their own businesses. Plus, his friend’s parents were involved in some of the most iconic companies in Silicon Valley at the time.
Physicists from the University of Amsterdam have teamed up with colleagues from Zürich to experimentally verify a curious phenomenon that had already been predicted by theory: an atomic-scale effect similar to how a football curves when kicked with spin. The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters earlier this month.
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Seven globally recognized researchers based in the United States and Europe will be joining the University of Ottawa to lead new Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada (formerly Canada Impact+ Research Chairs). They’ll boost the University’s capacity to promote Canadian innovation, leadership and competitiveness.
