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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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Assistant Professor of History of International Relations Peter Malcontent explains the situation in the Middle East in various media. An overview of developments.

Dong Nguyen receives an ERC Starting Grant and will research how data diversity affects the quality and behavior of language models.

How can brands design their chatbot effectively? In Conversational AI, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and others offer practical guidance.

Renée Vulto sheds new light on the history of Dutch political songs through her book Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period.

Uncertainty is ubiquitous among healthcare professionals and digital escape rooms can provide a solution.

In her book From Pessimism to Promise, Payal Arora argues that it is not naïve to be optimistic about our digital future.

Van Dijck was awarded this honorary doctorate on the recommendation of the Faculty of Humanities for her work in the fields of media studies and digital society.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: the singing culture of students.

This summer, Kathrin Thiele, Danielle van den Heuvel, Birgit M. Kaiser, and Cadence Kinsey have been appointed as Professors at Utrecht’s Faculty of Humanities.

The 2024 maximum for free of charge open access publishing at two publishers has nearly been reached.