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Taking Action 24 August 2020

‘Plenty of room for improvement of online education’

LONGREAD – As chairperson of the student council, Kata Rakić aims to work towards clearer communication for students, particularly for first-year students struggling to build a social network due to the coronavirus crisis.
Participation 20 August 2020

‘Corona almost spelled the end for the student council’

The university student council has four members this year who have been council members before. In corona time, last year’s board did not find enough new successors.
Campus 16 July 2020

Construction of new research building

The next VU Amsterdam new-build project has begun. The first sheet piling for the construction of the new lab building broke ground this week. Even well before construction began, it became known that the building was going to be a…
Campus 13 July 2020

Ventilation is excellent, says VU Amsterdam

Employees and students at VU Amsterdam do not need to worry about the ventilation of the buildings. There is plenty of fresh air and air circulation, according to the on-site crisis team.
Campus 1 July 2020

VU Amsterdam to get a ‘village’ for enterprising inventors

VU Amsterdam will be getting a start-up village: a place on campus where students or employees can rent office space for launching a business.
Debate 30 June 2020

‘More researchers with a migration background at the university’

Universities should focus on recruiting more scientists with a migration background, says Rector Magnificus Vinod Subramaniam.
Campus 1 April 2019

PhD student teaches meditation and Chinese at the VU

A PhD student in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and philosophy gives meditation workshops and Chinese lessons at the VU every week. For everyone and for nothing. Does Chao Zhang do that to bring a bit of the Far East to the…
Campus 22 July 2016

‘Amsterdam is actually very dirty’

So you come to Amsterdam from India, Uganda or Brazil to learn why there is more crime in one place than the other. But after a few days you find yourself enthusiastically counting cigarette butts at the Leidseplein. What happened?…
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