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Can the coronavirus spread through the air and through the environment of patients who are infected with the coronavirus? This appears to be possible, researchers from among others Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (IRAS) and UMC Utrecht discovered based on large-scale research in 28 Dutch nursing homes.

Professor of Late and medieval Latin Els Rose has published a new book on citizenship in late antiquity and early medieval times.

MOED's new exhibition makes connections between the royal Golden Coach and the way the Dutch colonial past is commemorated in the Netherlands.

On 24 March, the kick-off event for the new platform Science for Sustainability will take place. Master students Jamie and Tara spoke with René van Roij to find out why he took the initiative to start S4S.

How healthy is it to exercise along the Singel canal with all the traffic passing by? RTV Utrecht and Ulrike Gehring get on their bikes to answer this question.

PhD Candidate Mark Dekker has won the biannual Innovation Award presented by the Netherlands Platform for Survey Research.

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Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� appoints Willemien Kets as Professor of Game Theory per 1 March 2022. Professor Kets will work to further strengthen game theory by combining new elements from mathematics and the social sciences.

In this episode of the podcast series, UYA members Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh invite Dr. Kushtrim Istrefi and Prof. Dr. Rebecca Bryant to discuss the concept of ‘sovereignty’.

The sea butterfly is very sensitive to climate change. As CO2 in the atmosphere increases, it causes acidification of the oceans. The sea butterfly's shell has to take the first hit.

As of 1 September 2022, three new Senior Fellows will be appointed by the Executive Board:

From 1 March 2022, the Botanic Gardens will again be open for daily visits.

The first land masses rose above sea level 3.7 billion years ago, a billion years earlier than some estimates, and only 800 million years after the formation of the Earth.

The Executive Board asked the Committee to issue a recommendation on how to respond to the findings. The Committee has now submitted its report.

Kim Watts of the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Antwerp gave a workshop on her PhD research on alternative liability systems.

Do we need to use animals to test products and medical safety, or are there other options? These are some of the questions that Bachelor’s and Master’s students are studying together with professionals in the Replacing Animal Testing (RAT) Challenge.

In households, the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is regularly transmitted from infected humans to cats and dogs. This is evident from research conducted by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Wageningen ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� & Research and Erasmus Medical Center.

Catalina Goanta of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� is one of the authors of a report on online influencers, requested by the European Parliament.

Which impact does the digital world have on how youngsters view education? That is one of the questions youth researcher Zowi Vermeire occupies herself with. She researches how youngsters' online activities have changed how and what they learn. “I use online environments as a source of inspiration to look at regular education differently.”

In their four-part podcast, Sanne Frequin's honours students take us on an exploration of the world of medieval funerary monuments.

From now on, the university will go for maximum reuse of furniture for office use and education. This will be achieved by means of second-life or circular furniture. The ambition is that eventually, no new furniture will be purchased at all.

The Cochrane meta-analysis module: open-science software targeting applied clinical research.

Researchers discussed the challenges & opportunities of publishing in an Open Science context during the roundtable 'How does Open Science affect our publishing strategy' on 10 February 2022. You can read the report here.

IRW’s dr Lauren Gould appeared on the Dutch NOS Podcast ‘Met het Oog op Morgen’ to speak about civilian harm caused by the Dutch airstrike on Hawija in 2015. Gould’s appearance followed the news that lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld is to support eleven Iraqi survivors suing the Dutch state.

To make your scientific output more visible, you can now add a link to your GitHub profile on your Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� profile page.