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Associate professor Robert de Vries has been awarded a 150.000 Euro Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Dynamics of Youth is appointing ten interdisciplinary domain chairs, enthusiastic and renowned child and youth scientists from the UU and UMCU who will manage four thematic research domains.

YOUth is a large scale, longitudinal research project on child development.

Computer science at UU currently has five vacancies for full professors. One of the professorships is only open to female candidates.

Sociologists present report on inequality between men and women in work, care and wellbeing during the COVID pandemic.

Prof. Mehdi Dastani is working on a broad AI vision in which the focus is on how humans can remain in control of ever smarter systems.

In the fight against climate change, people look hopefully at technological solutions more and more often. But the debate about it is dangerously superficial, researcher Jeroen Oomen believes.

Using a novel model, researchers determined how great the impact of melting glaciers will be downstream, and how the pressure on different water sources will increase.

Curious children who like to investigate can go and do research in Utrecht this summer, together with scientists from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. During Summerschool Junior they will work on the theme 'air quality', to which Roel Vermeulen and his team will contribute.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� aims to strengthen biodiversity globally and locally. This week, in the run-up to World Biodiversity Day, is all about local, regional and national cooperation on biodiversity restoration.

Sociologist studied emotional problems, behavioural problems, hyperactivity, antisocial behaviour and problems with peers.

As of 1 July, Professor Dr Isabel Arends has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science by the Executive Board of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

AMOLF and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� have been awarded a 1.9 M€ research project by NWO to develop radically new catalytic reactors using plasmonic systems.

There is hope for conservationists in the Amazon: if you protect carbon-rich forests, you can protect the tree biodiversity at the same time.

The Green Team Pharmacy is making their education more sustainable, so far they've made one lab practical sustainable. What else is on the agenda?

Future Food Utrecht and AMPED/Local2Local will work together on the transition to local food and a regional food system, heritage and landscape, biodiversity and climate adaptation.

On 12 May, the final exams start. Alice Veldkamp researched escape rooms in education - can an escape room help you pass your final exams?

Kees van den Bos and Elly Hol are two of the 22 new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Coastal protection in Suriname has great natural variations but will become a challenge in the future due to human intervention.

This spring four Special Interest Groups have been awarded funding from the Focus Area Migration and Societal Change. All SiGs bring scholars form various faculties and disciplines together to work on one common topic.

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) has awarded this year’s Max Planck Frontier Award to Prof. Bert Weckhuysen.

A new perspective in Nature Sustainability suggests games can help us move past sustainability deadlocks and make change happen.

Call for abstracts “Non-use measures for global goods and commons in international law”, workshop 8-9 May 2023: marine life, Antarctica, high seas and outer-space.

Researchers Gonneke Stevens and Carlijn Kamphuis have been awarded an NWO grant of 1 million euros.

Over the past few decades, tiny pieces of plastic have found their way, via the air, to remote places on earth, IMAU researchers conclude.