First female university rector to be named

Dymph van den Boom is poised to be named rector of the combined University and Hogeschool (polytechnic) of Amsterdam, according to student newspaper Folia. Van den Boom, currently dean of the social and behavioural science unit at the UvA, would be the first female university head in the country.

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