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The lacklustre political response to the climate crisis is fuelling the call for resolute technological interventions, observes Jeroen Oomen.

Around 150 researchers will exchange research findings, discuss current topics and new initiatives related to Open and User Innovation.

RENFORCE researcher Thibault Schrepel analyzes all the speeches given by US and EU Commissioners and shows that they are building on populist rhetoric.

Rachel Gillett explains why the role of women in the Ku Klux Klan has so often been ignored.

Two Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� projects from have received a funding from the NWO programme PHDs in the Humanities.

On 18 June The Guardian published an article by Antoine Buyse on the protests in Sudan and Hong Kong.

Economic historian professor Bas van Bavel has received the NWO Spinoza Prize of 2.5 million euros, the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands.

Last week, Rutger van der Hoeven received his doctorate for his research on global visual memory.

Last week, the special issue of Stedelijk Studies 'Towards a Museum of Mutuality' has been launched.

ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� from researchers connected to the SIM and announcements of new SIM events, the summer 2019 edition of the SIM newsletter.

Today, Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and Rabobank presented an update on the Better Well-Being Index (BWI) 2019.

For his paper 'No Security, Except in Destruction: Transnational Threats, International Anxieties and the French Invasion of Algiers'.

It dealt with sovereignty in today’s changing legal and physical environment and the exploitation of marine energy resources.

The first book in the new Routledge series ‘Knowledge Societies in History’ (series editors: Sven Dupré and Wijnand Mijnhardt) will appear in August.

This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

On 20 and 21 June 2019 USG hosts an international conference on the protection of whistleblowers.

Awards for extraordinary academic achievements and social involvement

A broad national consortium led by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has received a 5 million euro grant to study soil subsidence in the Netherlands.

Due to essential maintenance the USG building will be less accessible between 1 July and 23 August 2019.

On 19 March Brill published 'The Banishment of Beverland', a book by Karen Hollewand.

In June the book 'My Mother's Mother's Mother' will be published by Leiden ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Press.

De Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researcher presented a paper at a conference of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Oslo on 3 June.

The earth’s rotation has surprising effects on narrow, deep lakes such as Lake Garda, according to a new publication in Scientific Reports.

Prof. Chris Backes (Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��) briefed the national commissions on Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Infrastructure and Water Management.

Recently, nine Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� students successfully participated in a comparative moot court on the implementation of EU environmental law.