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The experiences of students and staff of the UvA during the second wave of corona have been in some ways similar: study and work pressure is high, and the lack of social contact and time outdoors has also been difficult. This is evident from the first measurements of the UvA Crisis Monitor this autumn.

Daniel Pérez Pinedo, graduate of the MSc Biological Sciences at the UvA, is the winner of this year's East-West Seed Graduation Prize for Plant Sciences.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to neurologist Matthijs Brouwer and physicist Philippe Corboz.

Anthropologist Stuart Blume has been researching vaccination programmes for the last 20 years.

Women are still underrepresented in leadership roles. One major cause is unfavourable gender norms. Is it possible that art in which these norms are cast into doubt will reduce prejudice against female leadership? Psychologist Eftychia Stamkou has received a Veni grant to research this question.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), in which bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics, is an explosively growing problem worldwide.

All over the world, chemical products such as stimulants, but also beauty products, (energy) drinks, vitamins and food supplements have become an integral part of young people's daily lives.

How reliable are the computer models that governments use to decide which measures they should take to control the Covid-19 pandemic?

In March of this year, the 1992 paper on the orbital angular momentum of light by Les Allen, Marco Beijersbergen, Robert Spreeuw (UvA-IoP) and Han Woerdman was chosen as one of three "classic" papers

Linde Bryk is nominated for the VIVA400 Award! Linde is praised for her work as a human rights lawyer and as a strategic legal assistant for women's rights.

No fewer than 25 researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC have been awarded Veni grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to ten researchers from the UvA and the Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA, part of Amsterdam UMC).

For many people, the image that is conjured up when they imagine life outside the city is one that harkens back to an earlier era: an idyllic countryside, timeless, serene, far removed from the rest of the world.

Both Bachelor's and Master's programmes at the UvA have considerably more first year students this year than last year, with 17% and 19% increases, respectively.

Online health tools can play an important role in expanding patient participation among older cancer patients and older Turkish-Dutch and Moroccan-Dutch cancer patients. Nida Gizem Yilmaz discovered that the use of audiovisual information and multi-language eHealth tools offer a promising approach. On 30 October, she will defend her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam.

While most attention seems to go to Trump's behaviour and Covid19's role in the US Elections 2020, we want to turn our attention to the role of race and gender.

The University of Amsterdam will launch a new Data Science Centre (DSC) to help increase the innovation, diffusion and cross pollination of data science across all faculties.

Why a thorough understanding of local political elites is important In 2015, Rubén Espinosa, a journalist, was murdered in Veracruz, Mexico.