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Researchers examined how sustainable lifestyles, green-tech innovation, and government-led transformation could transform consumption and production across different sectors.

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!

Researchers each receive up to 850.000 Euros to develop innovative line of research.

As wildlife populations recover across Europe, research from the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development highlights the importance of open dialogue with farmers.

In this newsflash, you will find quick, bite-sized updates on a range of topics that we wish to share with you in addition to the other, more extensive articles in our newsfeed.

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

Early 2024, UU alumni Stefan Gaillard and Martijn van der Meer made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Read the interview about the Journal (JOTE).

Professor Albert Heck of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has delivered the prestigious Mendel Lecture on 17 October 2024. As part of this honour, he received an accompanying Mendel Medal.

The Earth's mantle seems to behave fundamentally differently than we have been taught for a hundred years.

This is the ninth call for projects to be funded by HAI. The projects resulting from this call will be accommodated by the existing SIGs.

At the Summit of the Future, held on September 22-23, 2024, world leaders agreed to take bold, ambitious, accelerated, just, and transformative actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Celebrating its tenth annual symposium, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) welcomed over 200 participants. The symposium offered a chance to look back on a decade of progress in bioinformatics and explore what lies ahead.

Do new medicines really work better than existing ones? And what should we be willing to pay for them? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Wim Goettsch calls for a critical look at medicine costs and more focus on the actual need for new drugs.

Integrating renewable energy sources into the design of the AtLAST telescope would introduce the astronomical community on the Chajnantor plateau and the nearby residential areas to more sustainable energy systems.

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

This year UU has chosen a teacher as Alumnus of the Year. The teacher shortage in science subjects is huge. How can the faculty contribute to reducing this?

Making brains generate their own therapeutics could be a promising approach to slowing or even stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Niels Reinders has shown in lab experiments that this approach could work.

Peter Dung, a physicist, recently began a new role at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. In this position, he won’t perform academic research, but focus on developing methods to facilitate dialogue among key players in the rapidly expanding green hydrogen industry.

On 2 October Prof. Detlef van Vuuren was awarded the 2024 Spinoza Prize at a ceremony in The Hague hosted by the Dutch Research Council NWO.

Thomas Dohmen, co-initiator and director of the AI Labs, will leave Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� as of 1 October.

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

Monique de Jager (Project Aanwaaiers) and Susanne Knittel (Ecocide Mock Trial) receive the Public Engagement Seed Fund to organize a public activity.

Image-based treatment is a method that allows patients to be treated in a more targeted and less invasive way.