Physics students Alptug Ulugol, Renske Wierda and Bram van Duinen were awarded EMMEPH prizes for the best Master’s and Bachelor’s theses with a ceremony in the final part of the ‘t Hooft Colloquium.
On Thursday 30 September and 7 October, staff from the Sustainability and Real Estate & Campus Programme, together with students from the Faculty of Science, literally made a contribution to the construction work.
Research into the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is showing strong annual growth at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. This is shown in an analysis by eight UU scientists.
Jack Li received the Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed graduate students studying outside China from the China Scholarship Council.
The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab will collaborate with the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Jyväskylä (Finland) on the political-historical research project ‘People and Parliament’. This collaboration between software developers and historians enables groundbreaking research into parliamentary data.
Prof. Hans van Meerten and Jorik van Zanden argue that the Dutch pension transition appears to fail to address the issues that should have been addressed most.
Over the next four years, researchers in this project will develop new insights on polar processes and will explore how polar climate change will affect the planet.
The researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and the Hubrecht Institute can use this grant to conduct research at top institutes abroad for up to 25 months.
Natalie Dobson, Assistant Professor at the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ School of Law, wrote a book on ‘Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction’.
In her PhD thesis, researcher Marij Swinkels studied which ideas are guiding European political leaders during a border-exceeding crisis, and how these ideas determine whether they can find shared solutions.
As of 1 October, Historian Jacco Pekelder is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of the Netherlands at the Westfälische Wilhelm-Universität Münster.
Eleven research pairs from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have been awarded grants to carry out joint research into the functioning of coastal seas and oceans.
Season 2 of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air has started! In this podcast series, the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity is discussed.
How do alumni feel about their connection with Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ? And how do they want to stay connected? The results of the alumni survey 2021 are known.