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Louise Gunning appointed president of Executive Board UvA and HvA

Prof. Louise Gunning-Schepers has been appointed president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) by the Supervisory Boards of the two institutions. The appointment is effective as of 1 April 2012.

Sleep deprivations alters brain structure

Chronic sleep restriction causes a decrease in hippocampal volume in adolescent rats, which is not explained by changes in glucocorticoid levels or neurogenesis.

Dr H.J. Honing

Henkjan Honing has been appointed Professor of Cognitive and Computational Musicology at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.

Use of antidepressants during pregnancy causes structural changes in the brain of the unborn child

The use of certain antidepressants by pregnant women influences the development of the brain of their foetus, according to researchers of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The results of their research was published in 'Neuropharmacology'.

SRON expresses preference for Science Park Amsterdam

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW), has stated that the Science Park Amsterdam at the Watergraafsmeer is the preferred option for the new location of SRON Utrecht.

Topological superconductor in sight

Researchers from the FOM foundation, the Institute of Physics (IoP) of the University of Amsterdam and the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba (Japan) have demonstrated that the electrons in a topological superconductor behave in an unusual manner.

Detection of cancer cells using nanoparticles

In the framework of the China Exchange Program between the KNAW and its Chinese counterpart, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a research proposal on the medical application of novel photonic nanomaterials has been granted (400.000 euro).

Major NWO grant for researching paints used in fine arts

Within the framework of Science4Arts programme, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has provided funding for the project titled ‘How paint changes: consequences for conservation, presentation and preservation of paintings from Van Eyck to Mondriaan'. The UvA (Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science) will coordinate the research. NWO awarded a total of € 3.6 million to six different projects.

Councillor Gehrels visits SILS

Friday, 20 January, the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences received a visit from Carolien Gehrels, councillorfor, amongst others, Economic Affairs, Art and Culture. She was presented with a short series of lectures concerning the Research Priority Area ‘Green Life Sciences’.

'Secret Signals: odors of plants in distress' visualized by Rogier Arents

A phenomenon called 'indirect plant defense' is an important research topic investigated by the population biologists of IBED together with the plant physiologists of SILS at the Faculty of Science. The research has now become the central topic of the latest movie made by the designer Rogier Arents of the Design Academy at Eindhoven.

AUC Who's in Town lecture series - 'Big impact from small size: applications of nanotechnology in society'

As part of the 'Who's in Town' lecture series organised by Amsterdam University College, Prof. Albert van den Berg, honorary professor and head of BIOS/Lab-on-a-Chip group, MESA+ at the University of Twente and board member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, will hold a lecture about nanotechnology at the AUC Artis Library on Tuesday, 31 January 2012. All students and staff of the UvA are welcome.

Black hole fires ‘gas bullets’ into space

An international team of researchers including astronomers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Radboud University Nijmegen and ASTRON has captured a black hole in the Milky Way in the act of firing super fast ‘bullets’ of gas into space.

Dr E.J. Meijer

Dr E.J. Meijer has been appointed Professor of Molecular Simulations at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).