Dear new SHA students, We are super excited to welcome you to our community, the SHA! Which is why we planned an evening for you to meet your fellow SHA students and improve your pooling skills! We will be eating pizzas with the students from all the different disciplines, who you can challenge in playing…

On January 17th the SHA Excursion committee organised a beer tasting night! Accompanied by some french fries and a snack to lay a goede bodem, as many as 5 ‘speciaalbiertjes’ were available, going from the lowest alcohol percentile (6%) to the highest (10.5%). Beers were drunk, stories were shared and games were played, but it…

By a National Trip visitor: ‘The National Trip to DIFFER was a fun and new experience for me. I felt like I got to look around in a unique facility. It was great to see so many different groups and scientists all working together to try and generatie energy much more efficiently and sustainably. I…

The Sinterklaas reception was the second SHA reception of this year, and it was a success. Coming into the SHA room, we were greeted with a nice cup of hot chocolate or some glühwein. The room was decorated in the Christmas theme, with paper snowflakes on the windows and light strings all across the room….

Last week the SHA pub quiz committee organized their first activity; a Sinterklaas pubquiz! A selective group of students made their way to Mick O’Connells through typical dark Dutch autumn weather. Just a casual knowledge on Sinterklaas was not enough. The questions challenged our students’ creativity and knowledge on the history as well as the…

By a symposium visitor: ”On the 28th of November we have had the pleasure of attending the second symposium of the academic year, this time the topic was animal testing. There were 4 speakers of very different backgrounds and therefore they gave quite divergent talks. We started with a PhD student who talked about her…

On the 1st of November the first reception of this academic year took place. There were a lot of self-made snacks, including Halloween cookies. The SHA room was good-looking decorated in the spooky vibe and even some of the reception committee members were  make-upped in the Halloween theme.

Written by a symposium attendee: ”Some friends and I went to the symposium on music, not knowing what to expect. How do you organize a symposium on a topic that seems so specific, for an audience so diverse? But with topics on treatment with music therapy as medicine or as stress reduction, the computer science…

On Monday the 18th of June, the postponed symposium on food took place with three speakers covering the broad subject. Dr. Laura Meulenbroek from Danone opened the evening with a talk about cow’s milk allergy management. This talk revealed how the general opinion of exposure at a young age shifted from avoidance to stimulating tolerance….

On May 31st, some of the brightest minds the SHA has to offer bundled all the interdisciplinary knowledge they had of our little ‘frog country’ at the ‘SHA I love Holland’ night. Screams of the 12 provinces could be heard throughout the Uithof, famous (Dutch) commercials were recalled and exploding boxes were hastily passed around….