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Erik Beijen explored the immune system of mushrooms for his PhD project. Today, he defends his dissertation.

A new round of financial support is offered by the Dynamics of Youth community Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS) to promote and support research activities. Submit your proposals by June 13, 2025.

In her PhD research at IRAS of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shirah Buijnink investigates the spatial and temporal variation in nitrogen deposition on the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug.

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.

Universiteiten spelen een cruciale rol in het verspreiden van betrouwbare wetenschappelijke informatie. Ironisch genoeg kunnen wetenschappelijke persberichten soms ook bijdragen aan misleidende beeldvorming.

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.

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

Prof. Niels Bosma has been appointed as the new Head of Department of the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Economics (U.S.E.), as of 1 September 2025.

Twenty years of AI research at the Faculty of Science, seen through Professor Mehdi Dastani's eyes.

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.”

If you are a student or employee at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, you can sail along! Register now for this unique experience.

Prof. Dr. Susan te Pas will be leaving her position as Dean at ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College Utrecht (UCU) on 1st July 2025.

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.

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.