Who, what,where? Annelies Vredeveldt (‘07) successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “The benefits of eye-closure on eyewitness memory” at the University of York, and won two awards for her research: the American Psychology-Law PhD dissertation award (first place) and the British Psychology Society Social Psychology Section PhD award. Anne Smit (‘04) was married to Sander Klijnstra on April 2nd, 2011. On August 5th, 2011, their son Sybe Jonathan Klijnstra was born. Marjan van der Burg née Verdaasdonk (‘03) gave birth to a baby girl, Aimée, on February 9th of this year. Daphne Paree (‘02) married Stefan Engelke on June 25th 2011. They celebrated their wedding ceremony in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. Daphne and Stefan live in Zurich, Switzerland. Danique van Koppenhagen (‘10), along with Tomas Beerthuis, beat out more than 70 other teams to place first in the 2012 Dutch national debating championships held in Groningen on the 21st and 22nd of April. Fleur Odylle van Wijck (‘05) released her first album under the name Odylle. Istanbul Bana Ne Yaptin is a 12-song English language album, written by Fleur and arranged by her four Turkish musicians. It’s available throughout Turkey, as well as internationally
through iTunes, Spotify and Amazon (we’ve listened to it, it’s really good!). Mark Ruitenbeek (‘07) married Jennifer Pees on May 16th, 2012. The UCU Campus, since it is shared with the Utrecht School of Economics & the James Boswell Institute, has been renamed ‘International Campus Utrecht’. Andrea Goezinne (‘05) will be getting married this summer and is helping organise and participating in the charity run Helden Race 2012 in The Hague. Help her reach her fundraising goal by donating at heldenracedenhaag2012.alvarum.net/ andreaschoice. Luuk Bressers (‘05) got married to Maaike Boselie on May 11th, 2012. Frederique Schut (‘08) got her Dutch language debut novel ‘Met Muijs’ published with Uitgeverij Atlas Contact. It’s available through bol.com and, in the Netherlands, at a bookstore near you. Lynn Zebeda (‘06) was the runner up on the Dutch TV show ‘Premier gezocht!’, looking for the most promising young political talents in the Netherlands. Many of the ideas she presented on the show she is currently working on implementing through Dr. Monk, the company she founded with fellow alumna Ama van Dantzig (‘04).
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UCU’s dean Rob van der Vaart was appointed Vice Rector for Education of Utrecht University. Rob will represent UU in international networks that are concerned with education, and will be responsible for stimulating opportunities for collaboration, looking after the interests of students and teachers. UCU’s founder and former dean Hans Adriaansens was the recipient of the first ever NEWS-award for the internationalisation of higher education for proving the ideals of an internationally oriented liberal arts and science education were also tenable in the Netherlands. Claudia van den Heuvel (‘05) successfully defended her PhD in in Critical and Major Incident Psychology entitled ‘Inaction in Action: The effect of uncertainty on critical incident decision making’ at the University of Liverpool. Martin Zebracki (‘05) received a PhD in human geography at the University of Utrecht. His dissertation “Public Artopia: Art in Public Space in Question” investigates the appreciation of art in the public sphere. Gijs Stevers (‘08) embarked upon his 22.000 km electric bike ride Cape to Cape 2012, from the North Cape in Norway to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Along the way he wants to meet the people who will make renewable energy possible in the twenty-first century.
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