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Different types of residential areas will get extra money to adapt to hotter summers and heavier showers. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is monitoring these projects.

UU/PBL researcher Mathijs Harmsen investigated how low cost mitigation strategies to reduce non-CO2 emissions could contribute to global climate goals.

Walter Immerzeel is appointed to Professor of Mountain Hydrology and hereby strengthens research, education and international collaboration in mountain regions.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is collaborating with Google and the municipality of Amsterdam to map the air quality in the city at street level.

Five Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researchers have taken part in the Dutch House of Representatives’ round-table discussions about among others energy transition.

On 27 April, the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) presented the ‘Special Achievement Award’ to Marca Wauben

Mohammadreza Farrokhnia is a physics teacher, working for the Iranian ministry of education, and PhD candidate at Tarbiat Modares university of Tehran.

Cell biologist Martin Harterink presents his research in the Louis Hartlooper Complex.

Ingrid Robeyns wrote an essay on occasion of the Twelve Stars project, titled 'For a EU-wide tax on air travel to fight climate change'.

Algae can convert up to 98 percent of the solar energy. Through mass spectrometry, it has now become clear how.

The Green Signpost is now on display on the square next to the USP ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library.

[interview] Erik van Sebille, oceanographer at the Faculty of Science, tells about his research and the development of a community code.

Maartje de Graaf, behavioural scientist at the department of Computer Science, has been chosen as one of the fifty role models of Inspiring Fifty Netherlands.

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept grant of 150,000 euros to Utrecht catalysis researchers led by Bert Weckhuysen.

European grant for multidisciplinary research project TiPES: Tipping Points in the Earth System

Life in the seas and oceans is jeopardised by a decline in oxygen. Recovery from low oxygen is extremely slow, writes Caroline Slomp.

Rashmi Sasidharan is one of the researchers involved on behalf of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ with Expeditie NEXT on 2 May.

Plants that stand close together, like in agriculture, tend to quickly grow to great heights, causing weak stems. A little bit of salt attenuates that response.

Prof. Bert Weckhuysen (Chemistry) has been awarded a Comenius Programme Teaching Fellow grant.

COGEM advises the Dutch government on the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to humans and the environment.

An international team of history researchers have received a European grant for research on intoxicating substances in Europe between 1600 and 1850.

In residents’ initiatives that aim to boost a city’s climate resilience, municipalities aim to focus more on facilitating, according to UU scientists.

On April 26th, Bert de Vries discussed the role of complex systems science to unravel human interactions in sustainability research.

In April - June, CCSS hosts 3 discussions on how complex system science can contribute towards solving big societal challenges.

Giuseppe Soligno and Daniel Vanmaekelbergh developed a simulation model that reproduces the formation of these nanostructures in detail.