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We are excited to host a range of lectures and activities at the crossroads of the fair transitions and land governance debates in this year’s Summer School: Fair Transitions and the Politics of Land: Institutions and Imaginaries for Inclusive Futures. We hope it will draw many of you to Utrecht!

At Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, climate modellers from the IPCC are collaborating with two artists.. Article on the Pathways to Sustainability Conference and the cooperation with artists, originally written for NRC.

At the Central Museum, Medical and Pharmacy students had a unique experience that made them aware of the complexity of effective communication.

At the Pathways Conference on 4 April, the Critical Pathways and Sustainable Ocean communities jointly organized a session on the topic of ‘Whose Ocean’

Interview with Claudia Wieners and Jeroen Oomen on debate to use technological measures to combat global warming.

The Freudenthal Institute is honoured to announce that, from August 1, Dr. Federica Russo will take up the chair of Philosophy and Ethics of Techno-Science at the Institute

During the workshop held at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ on 8-9 May 2023 it appeared the concept of use, and thus of non-use, is complicated to delineate

Since 11 May, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has added another eight AI labs. They all officially opened at the Utrecht AI Labs event, bringing the number of AI Labs in Utrecht to a total of 14.

Climate is changing, ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising. This concern is crystal clear. Eight questions to four passionate 'polar researchers'.

Erik van Sebille’s inaugural lecture as Professor of Oceanography & Public Engagement is now available online. Van Sebille is a renowned oceanographer and climate scientist with a focus on how ocean currents transport plastic, heat, marine organisms, and nutrients.

Samples to Slides is an ethnographic film, intended to increase understanding of the knowledge, craft, and skill of the unknown world of pathology.

During the Utrecht AI Labs Event 2023, Utrecht AI Labs researchers and partners from business, policy and civil society discussed the application of AI and data science in daily practice.

Concerned students involved with End Fossil Occupy Utrecht (EFO Utrecht) occupied a room in the Minnaert building out of protest from 8 May until 10 May.

Recap of the afternoon session Materials and Energy in 2060.

The scientists visualized the mechanism underlying this with unparalleled precision. The results of the study appeared in the leading scientific journal Science.

The Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research congratulates Margreet Koopman and Fernando Salgado-Polo with both receiving the PhD of the Year Award at the occasion of the 2023 Bijvoet Symposium.

Edited by Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff, Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture was recently published.

Concerned students and other involved parties including End Fossil Occupy Utrecht (EFO Utrecht) are protesting at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ today.

Each of the professorships involves an internal candidate. The appointments are part of a growth programme with extra attention to diversity.

EU funds Karin Gerritsen's KIDNEW consortium that aims to enhance filtration techniques for chronic kidney patients by combining nanotechnology and kidney cells.

Contesting Governance core team members, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Katharine Fortin, are coordinators of a new multi-faculty minor titled Re-Imagining Security.

Call from the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) to participate in an unprecedented STEM-humanities-social-sciences collaboration focused on observing black holes.

At Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, interdisciplinary research into a sustainable future comes together in Pathways to Sustainability. To do justice to the natural sciences in this strategic theme, Professor René van Roij and colleagues initiated the community Science for Sustainability a year ago.

Recent Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ research identifies some of the main challenges in the governance of subsiding peatlands and gives suggestions on how to move forward.

Prof Sybil Seitzinger, member of our Advisory Board attended most of our annual conferences. We asked her to reflect on how they have evolved over the years in this blog.