VU Stories

‘I HAD THE BEST FRIES OF MY LIFE IN THE NETHERLANDS’

René Rector21 June 2017
Her original goal was to help her country deal with water-related problems. Today, she is a Disaster Risk Reduction Associate at United Nation

‘AS A CHEMIST, I WANT TO HELP COMPLY WITH THE CLIMATE AGREEMENT’

Floor Schrijvers8 June 2017
He has 200 patents to his name, but one of the Netherlands’ most innovative chemists really just wanted to study medicine.

JAAP BLAAK WAS THE FIRST TO CONGRATULATE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Jaap Blaak6 April 2017
When Martin Luther King Jr. was presented with an honorary doctorate from the VU Amsterdam in 1965, physics and economics student Jaap Blaak

‘DOING NOTHING IS THE BEST WAY TO MAKE EVERYTHING TURN OUT WRONG’

Rianne Lindhout9 March 2017
What do old newspapers, climate-neutral eggs and solar-powered lights in Africa have to do with one another? Together with many, many other projects

WILLEMSPARKWEG 200. HISTORY OF A VU STUDENT HOUSE

Siebold Hartkamp2 March 2017
In an attempt to prevent eviction, in 1965 the tenants of a stately home on the Willemsparkweg contacted the fledgling Student Housing Foundation at

‘IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT HEALING THE BODY, IT’S ALSO ABOUT HEALING THE MIND’

René Rector23 January 2017
Eveliene Manten-Horst planned on a career in a laboratory after her studies in Biomedical Science. But after she earned her PhD, she changed course.

‘MY INTEREST IN THE US WAS BORN IN THE VU BOOKSTORE’

Gemma Venhuizen7 December 2016
One of the few Dutch people who were not surprised by the results of the American election was the Operations Director at Jacobs Douwe Egberts.