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As of July 1, 2024, Gunther Cornelissen is one of the new UU-wide experts for Recognition and Rewards.

Veterinary medicine researchers form Utrecht and Cornell have identified DNA markers that influence the risk of gastric cancer in Belgian Shepherd dogs.

The nominees for the Best Master’s Thesis 2024 are: Femke Lenderink, Bilyana Manolova and Marien Raat. The nominees for the Social Impact Award 2024 are: Noa Duizend and Kjeld Werther.

The Executive Board has commissioned an independent fact-finding investigation into the protests and occupations of May 7 and 8.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and its spin-off, DialogueTrainer, have secured funding from Click.nl to elevate their virtual conversation trainer to the next level.

Pınar Yolum advocates for trustworthy AI: systems that demonstrate certain properties that allow people to trust their results.

[Interview] The IMAGE model is used to research global warming and its countermeasures. This computer model is not open-source and the computer code is outdated. Thanks to the Innovation Fund, the part on land use, IMAGE land, has been converted into an open-source Python-version.

Het institute for a Circular Society (i4CS), onderdeel van de EWUU-alliantie, kondigt de volgende ronde van Seed Funding aan.

The institute 4 Preventive Health (i4PH) is announcing its next round of Seed Funding: “Embracing a Transdisciplinary Approach to Drive Preventive Health Transformations”.

In this article, you can read how the dialogue on Gaza and Israel from Friday 12 July went.

Update on the evaluation of collaboration with Israeli partners

Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe RENFORCE welcomes contributions for the 3rd Utrecht EU Trade and Investment Law Workshop on 6 December 2024

The use of AI-enabled targeting systems by Israel in Gaza is not in line with international humanitarian law, according to Jessica Dorsey and Marta Bo on Opinio Juris.

Professor of Game and Media Technology, Remco Veltkamp, will join the Utrecht AI Labs as scientific director starting 1 August.

Dr. Mike Sas, who completed his PhD at UU-GRASP, has been awarded the prestigious NWO Veni fellowship.

Peter Tsun Ho Pang, currently a postdoc at GRASP, has won a prestigious NWO Veni fellowship.

Renske ten Ham has received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research into improving cost-effectiveness analyses for gene therapies.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� is committed to developing a to a future-proof educational culture focused on quality and innovation. Interfaculty projects that innovate and improve education are made possible annually by the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund (USO).

Myrna de Rooij receives a Veni grant for the development of new technologies to monitor zoonotic pathogens on livestock farms.

Fourteen promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (DRC).

Timeline | Five scholars provide a step-by-step explanation of the history and background of the current Israel-Hamas war, known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

New research explores how networks—groups of interconnected actors with shared—goals can break down barriers to nature-based solutions.

On July 17th 2024, the Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET) project launches an innovative, experimental website to share research findings on just energy transitions more effectively and engagingly.

On June 1, 2024, Ted Sanders took over the presidency of the Faculty Club from Ronald Bleys. Ted Sanders is Professor of Dutch language use and discourse studies at the Faculty of Humanities and also Vice-Rector of Research at UU. Ted knows the club very well and believes strongly in the Faculty Club as a meeting place and living room of the UU.

Taking antibiotics at a young age can make the body more prone to asthma and allergies later in life. This might be preventable by adding a simple supplement, concludes immunologist Olaf Perdijk from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. His comprehensive study is published today in the journal Immunity.