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Begin dit jaar zijn er meerdere aanvragen ingediend voor het Public Engagement Seed Fund. Twee daarvan zijn nu gehonoreerd.

Mensen die wonen in gebieden met een slechte luchtkwaliteit hebben meer kans om corona te krijgen. Ook zijn de klachten erger waardoor er meer mensen overlijden. Dat luchtvervuiling de kans op luchtwegaandoeningen vergroot was al bekend. Onderzoek uit het buitenland toonde al eerder aan dat dit ook voor corona geldt. Nu blijkt dit ook voor Nederland.

Catherine Robin and Riccardo Levato received a ZonMw grant of €750.000 for implementation of an innovative three-dimensional bioprinting technology to study blood stem cell production.

The Dutch National Growth Fund will invest in a new centre for animal-free biomedical testing for safer, more effective treatments, while reducing animal suffering.

The KHMW Langerhuizen Oeuvre Prize has been awarded annually since 2020 to honour a scientist who has made meritorious achievements in the field of natural sciences. This year the prize goes to two emeriti from the UU: Dennis Dieks and Floris Cohen.

Mark Bovens elaborates the importance of the unwritten rules to uphold democracy. He gives this speech at the 388th anniversary of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ on the future of democracy on March 26th 2024.

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and others, aims to find out how to best make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Centre for Global Challenges and UMC Utrecht Global Health have joined forces at confronting global health inequities.

Call for abstracts of papers and posters for the Tropical Horizons Conference 2024.

Two of the seven research consortia awarded Gravitation research funding from OCW are led by researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Under the name Adapt!, an interuniversity team of researchers will research the cultural, social, and policy capacities needed to deal with crises.

An interview with Kei Otsuki and Daan van Uhm about the Critical Pathways community of Pathways to Sustainability.

On 20 March, 106 professors introduced over 2,300 pupils from groups 6, 7 and 8 to research and science.

An experience festival inspired by the inability or inability to hear sound properly, that is Sencity. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is also present. What can you expect?

We invite papers that propose, modify, elaborate, demonstrate or reflect on innovative methods for studying video-on-demand services (VODs)

Pathways to Sustainability awarded nine teams with an Incubator Grant for their unusual and innovative ideas for a more sustainable future awarded

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ aspires to be an international university, in part through cooperation with partner universities. One example is the strategic partnership with the Anton de Kom ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Suriname (AdeKUS).

As of June 1st, 2024, Professor Ted Sanders will be appointed to the position of Vice Rector of Research at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Renée Maas used stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to study heart disease with the aim of developing new treatments, resulting in her promotion on March 13.

How can an infection help repair bone defects? This was the question that started the PhD research of Paree Khokhani, who defended her work on the 12th of March.

How do we navigate societal transitions using cross-disciplinary education and research? This question is the focus of the EWUU alliance Annual Conference 2024 'Navigating Transitions', on Wednesday, April 24, at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.

Johan Sonnenschein and Els Stronks receive the grant to expand SchrijfLab.nl to include writing education for secondary special needs education, cluster 4.

Florencia Abinzano spent her PhD developing a regenerative solution for cartilage damage and will receive her doctorate on March 11th.

Niels Kerssens has been awarded an NWO Impact Explorer grant for his research project on teaching in the digitising classroom and critical digital literacy.

Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures Payal Arora co-wrote a United Nations ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ report with guidelines for training AI models through artificially generated data.