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On 27 May 2025, Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) signed an agreement to formalise their cooperation for the next five years.

PhD candidate Lisa Davies explored how Dutch patients experience opioid use and the care surrounding it.

The new Evolution garden at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Botanic Gardens will officially open in June.

While Europe is investing billions in digital infrastructure, we must not forget that technology also requires people who can work with it.

Isabelle Donatz-Fest spent 350 hours with the police to see how algorithms are given a role in daily operations.

Acht Utrechtse onderzoekers hebben financiering gekregen in de 25e ronde van de NWO Open Competitie ENW-XS.

After spending some time working in industry, Silvia Coolen now teaches biology students in Utrecht, where she also studied and earned her PhD.

Abeln offers insights into the latest developments in her field, the use of AI in the life sciences, and expresses concern over reliance on big tech companies.

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

A workshop on copyright, aimed at students, is added to edusources and can be used by lecturers in their teaching.

Launch of Basement Membrane Extract (BME)-free database, hosted by 3Rs Centre Utrecht.

Retrospect on the FLS workshop on an ideal learning and working environment for everyone. Participants experienced how personal preferences and neurodiversity influence their learning process.

Christian Lange delves into the role of the senses in Islam. “Smell plays a surprisingly significant role in religious and non-religious areas of Islamic culture.”

In BBC Sounds, Dieuwke van der Poel talks about Suster Bertken (1426-1514) and her discovery that some of her poems were likely sung. Now, they can be heard once again.

Universiteit Utrecht has developed an educational programme for public professionals working on sustainability issues in the Utrecht region that want to strenghten their leadership in this area.

Jansen and his team aim to bridge the gap between fundamental ecological research and practical challenges in nature conservation and restoration.

Students researched the stories of students and a professor who died during the Second World War. Memorial stones have now been placed in their honour.

These are Marianne Helena Blazer, Jacob Johannes Bol, Jacob van Gelderen, Cornelis van Lier, and Henny Mimi de Vries, for whom a Stolperstein has been placed today.

The findings support the idea that sex was already being used for social purposes by the last common ancestor of humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees.

What does biodiversity have to do with evolution? We ask Edwin Pos, evolutionary ecologist and Scientific Director of the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Botanic Gardens.

The plan is to continue monitoring for years. Lembrechts: “By measuring continuously over the long term, we can get a clear picture of biodiversity variation."

Parasites are often overlooked in biodiversity research and conservation efforts. That needs to change, says zombie ant researcher Charissa de Bekker.

Last Thursday Adapt! was launched. “By linking research with practice, we are developing practical solutions,” says key initiator and Director Beatrice de Graaf.

How did fame operate in the past? Arnoud Visser and others explore fame and celebrity in the period from 1450 to 1650.

Classes in the final three years of primary schools in the province of Utrecht can now sign up for the project and contribute to research on plant biodiversity.