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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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

What can the two learn from each other? To find out, Lund’s ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Board paid Utrecht a two day visit at the end of April.

Water and drought experts Marc Bierkens and Niko Wanders start the World Water Map project, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society.

Out of the seven Gravitation grants, two are granted to projects led by Utrecht Faculty of Science researchers: Prof. Anna Akhmanova (cell biology) and Prof. Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (nanomaterials).

Sharing practices and innovative ideas on how to integrate urban Nature Based Solutions (NBS) into Dutch cities, May 31st in Utrecht.

Debbie Jaarsma, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, receives an honorary doctorate from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Zurich.

Een consortium van de Universiteit Utrecht, Hydrologic, KWR en het KNMI onderzoekt in een deelproject de effecten van veranderingen in landgebruik en klimaat op de grondwaterstanden in Nederland.

For his insight and commitment in the broad application of his knowledge of biology and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, René Kwant was awarded royal honours on 26 April 2022.