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The Supervisory Board of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) has appointed prof. Wilco Hazeleger as the new Rector Magnificus of UU per March 27th, 2025. He will succeed prof. dr. Henk Kummeling.

Over the next five years, Bert Weckhuysen will be working together with industry partners to investigate how colorants from plastic bottles can be recycled.

On December 11, the coalition parties reached an agreement with part of the opposition on the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). Based on the available figures, the conclusion is that the budget cuts in higher education and research are still huge.

“I am glad that these negative results are finally shared, as it helps prevent duplication of work and unnecessary suffering in laboratory animals.”

Machine learning can fill in 'invisible puzzle pieces', making climate models more realistic and accurate.

This issue of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities invites critical reflections on relationships, resistance, and solidarity that challenge and inspire.

Researchers receive Biodiversa+ funding for research into nature-based solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change.

Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

Five questions to vice-president Margot van der Starre on the budget cuts.

As per 1 January 2025, Anna Gerbrandy and Rutger Claassen will be appointed the new scientific directors of the university-wide strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies (IOS).

Sustainability-focused teaching materials encourage students to think critically about the life cycle of plastics and the environmental impact of chemical processes related to plastics.

The education protest scheduled to take place in Utrecht today has been cancelled. The original speakers' programme will continue from the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives).

The number of new students at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) remains virtually unchanged this year (-0.1%), according to the preliminary enrolment numbers.

Ahmed has nearly 860 thousand subscribers on YouTube and an impressive 1.3 million followers on Facebook. Today, Ahmed will defend his PhD thesis.

Three Utrecht research projects have been awarded funding within the programme National Science Agenda Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC).

Kári Driscoll translates Teresa Präauer's ‘Tier werden’ into ‘Becoming Animal’, which explores cultural zoology and the evolution of words, images and identity.

On 14 November, employees and students of universities and universities of applied science will protest in Utrecht against the drastic budget cuts in higher education.

Potentially, simply spraying such molecules on a field could delay the agriculturally undesired effects of aging in crop plants.

Dried plant bundles sold for ritual burning often include plants from distant regions that may be harvested unsustainably to meet the rising demand.

LPL is hiring a student assistant for 16 hours a week starting from mid-to-late-November. Hardware knowledge isn't necessary but a willingness to learn is!

As part of an ongoing campaign, a letter of appeal was sent to The Hague today, signed by CEOs of dozens of organisations.

Join us for Engage Actually on 3 December: an afternoon dedicated to Public Engagement at the Faculty of Science.

At the USP and ICU, waste is collected separately: residual waste, paper, GFE and PD. In the city centre, it works slightly differently. In the city centre, there are two bins: for paper and a bin for mixed waste.

Jonas Lembrechts: “It is clear that if nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands do not decrease, plant diversity will become increasingly impoverished."

Drs. Margot van der Starre has been reappointed by the Supervisory Board as Vice President of the Executive Board of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� effective March 15, 2025.