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One of the new Big Questions courses offered at AUC beginning this spring is called Big Questions in Time. In this course, students are asked to examine the central question “what is time” from a variety of different ...

In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, Amsterdam University College continues to provide students with the best possible (digital) learning environment to ensure that current students can continue their education.

As the world continues to deal with the implications of the coronavirus and need to prevent its further spread, a group of motivated AUC students have stepped up to offer assistance to those in need around the ...

In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this series of events have been postponed until further notice due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new ...

From 2 to 4 January, six AUC students participated in the 22nd edition of the International Interdisciplinary Seminar that took place at the University of Oxford and in the Netherhall House in London.

From October 2019 throughout 2020, Amsterdam University College will serve as a venue for a series of academic and public events focused on an amazing and highly sensitive dimension of human existence: the realm of ...

On 25 November 2019, Rijksmuseum curator Hans Rooseboom generously shared a selection of photographs from the museum’s collection with students taking the AUC course "The Photograph as Social Political Document" ...

AUC alumnus Paul Verhagen (Class of 2015) has recently co-authored a book titled 'Het Amerikaanse presidentschap: Het machtigste ambt ter wereld' (The American presidency: the most powerful office in the world). ...

Nina Tellegen has joined the board of the AUC Scholarship Fund (ASF) as its newest member on 1 December 2019. Since March 2016 Ms.Tellegen has served as the director of the Amsterdam Economic Board.

AUC lecturer and tutor Dr. Bart Verheggen has been an active participant in the public debate about climate change for over a decade. His first book on the topic, written in Dutch and published by Prometheus, is ...

In late 2019, AUC alumna Lisa van Holsteijn was announced as the winner of the AUV Alumni Award and Erik van Halewijn was named Folia’s UvA’er of the Year. Both Erik and Lisa were awarded the prizes for their efforts ...

From 16 - 17 November 2019, the second Dutch Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) took place in the AUC building. Organised jointly by a group of motivated AUC students and students from other universities in the ...

On Wednesday 20 November 2019, AUC’s Head of Studies of the Social Sciences Dr. Sennay Ghebreab and AUC alumnus Erik van Halewijn (Class of 2018) were both named nominees for Folia’s UvA'er of the Year award.

On Monday, 28 October, AUC student initiative Right2Education was announced as the second runner-up of Aurora Universities Network’s Diversity and Equality Award. The prize ceremony was held in the Stedelijk Museum ...

During October 2019, AUC celebrated Black History Month for the first time. Various events were organised by the Student Life Officer and the Well-Being Team in collaboration with the AUC Student Council (AUCSC) and ...

On Wednesday, 16 October 2019, AUC alumni Erik van Halewijn (Class of 2018) and Lisa van Holsteijn (Class of 2018) were announced as two of the eight nominees for the AUV Alumni Awards 2019 for their work on their ...

Amsterdam University College celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a series of activities and events that included a festive birthday cake and flag hoisting, the formal Dies Natalis ceremony at the KIT Royal ...

Recent AUC alumna Sahar Afzal (Social Sciences, Class of 2019) has been nominated as a finalist for the ECHO Awards 2019. She recently spoke to Elize Fallon from the University of Amsterdam about her work in using ...

During the summer of 2019, AUC students Josephine Geurts, Ruurd Kouwenhoven, Annemijn Ooms and Justin Smael were selected to participate in the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School (NAHSS).

From 26 August – 30 August 2019, the AUC Introduction Week for the Class of 2022 took place at Amsterdam Science Park and around the city. Welcoming more than 340 new full-programme and exchange students, the 2019 ...