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January 25, 2012

8 AUC and UvA students receive Beta Beurs Scholarship

- Sennay Ghebreab

Eight Amsterdam University College (AUC)  and University of Amsterdam students receive a Beta Beurs Scholarship. The Beta Beurs is a financial scholarship to excellent bachelor students aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary capstone research at the Science Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. The scholarship will enable students to carry out research requiring resources which otherwise might be impossible to get hands on.  The following students have received a beta beurs (project summaries can be found here):

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July 23, 2011

CCCT Summer School Reading Mediated Minds

- Ed Tan

Twenty five PhD students gathered at Amsterdam University College to participate in CCCT and ASCoR organised summer school Reading Mediated Minds from mon July 11 to wed 13. See the programme here: http://ccct.uva.nl/content/ccct-summer-school-reading-mediated-minds Participants exchanged their research projects on forms of empathy in spectators of film, readers of literature, viewers of visuals and listeners of music. They also learned about new directions in neuroscience and text and image search engines that may be relevant for scaling up their analyses.

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June 9, 2011

Emotion recognition & personalized advertising

- Sennay Ghebreab

Bloomberg TV reports on emotion recognition software developed at the University of Amsterdam and used at the Beta-lab, Amsterdam University College

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