By Esmée Zuiker Cirfood, the current caterer of the canteen, will leave AUC as of 1 January 2027, when the company’s contract with UvA and HvA Facility Services expires. This leaves the future of the AUC canteen uncertain. The Facility Services, together with AUC and other parties, are exploring new caterers and alternative catering initiatives,…

By Komari Machida and Milan Rooney In the second week of May, AUC students returning from break were greeted with a big surprise: the Academic Building (AB) had undergone a major interior redesign.  According to Marcus Smit, AUC’s Head of Communications, the AB had been in a “very necessary need of a refurnishing”. It had…

By Sophie Staal Over the past three months, construction work in the Academic Building has been impossible to miss. Students had to use the emergency staircase to get to class, dealt with noise disruptions from drilling, and witnessed precautions taken in the cafeteria to protect food from dust and debris. The renovations are now done:…

By Tal Ben Yakir and Levin Stamm — On Friday, 19 November, a would-be thief attempted to steal a laptop from a project room in the Academic Building (AB). The thief would have succeeded, were it not for one AUC student. First-year Science major Igor Alexander Duijvestijn gave chase to the thief. After a short…

By Ronja Boer Soon after a new school year started, the Amsterdam University College’s Student Council posted a question in the AUC Facebook group that seemed to worry some students. The question: should the toilets in the Academic Building remain gender neutral? Most students currently studying at AUC have never experienced the Academic Building before…