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Research

Michiel Vermaat wins Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis prize 2024

Michiel Vermaat has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis prize 2024 with his master's thesis, entitled ‘Seeing Beyond the Surface: Investigating Methods of Visualising Consolidants in Wood Borer-Damaged ...
UvA returns sound recordings and film footage from colonial collection to Indonesia

Last week, a large number of music recordings from the former Dutch East Indies were transferred digitally to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) by the University of Amsterdam (UvA). It was a ...
‘The German border controls are primarily gesture politics’

Last Monday, Germany introduced passport controls at all national borders. How new is that measure, and what kind of effect do border controls have on the political attitudes of citizens? PhD candidate Lisa Herbig, ...
A sophisticated approach to watching paint dry

In a paper in Macromolecules, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present detailed insights into the polymerization process of drying oils in paint. Using ...