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On 7-9 march the Horizon2020 GRACE Conference: ‘Gender and Cultures of (In)Equality in Europe: visions, poetics, strategies’ will take place.

The Huizinga Institute is the National Research Institute and Graduate School of Cultural History. The institute has moved to Utrecht as of 1 January 2019.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� hosts the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) 2019: Environmental Law for Transitions to Sustainability.

Erik J. Molenaar gave a presentation at the symposium The Caribbean Parts of the Kingdom and International Law.

Thanks to our generous donors, we received donations adding up to an amount of over €3.500 for the UCU Fund in the past two months.

These findings come from a national fact sheet about the outcomes of the all-UC alumni survey.

Geologist Fransesco Salese from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has found indications that ground water was once present on Mars.

The NQHR, a double blind, peer-reviewed journal on human rights, invites article submissions for its publications in 2019 and 2020.

Five out of six ICON research groups scored ‘very good’ on research quality. The quality of the Gender Studies group was even rated ‘excellent’.

The Gender and Diversity Hub is setting up a series of monthly lunchtime conversations around issues of gender equality and diversity.

What should our government do with returning IS soldiers? Is it safe to let them return? Professor Kees van den Bos explains.

Netherlands Initiative Changing Oceans

How do we get children with chronic fatigue syndrome to play with their peers? Paediatrician Sanne Nijhof about serious games and more.

Dutch National Park Zuid-Kennemerland is equipped with a Smart Parks network that gathers information about the behaviour of large grazers.

Veerle Cnudde is appointed as professor of Porous Media Imaging Techniques at the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Helge Niemann is appointed as professor for the chair Microbial and isotopic biogeochemistry at the Earth Sciences department of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Dr. Anne-Rigt Poortman is awarded a grant of 1,5 million euros by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Physics researcher Rembert Duine will receive 1.5 million euros from NWO for his project 'Fluid electronics'.

Anne Schulp is appointed as professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� to develop strategic advice facilitating the rapid availability of new antimalarial therapies on the African and Southeast Asian markets.

At the end of April 'Capital Women', written by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor and Sarah Carmichael, will be published by Oxford ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Press.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researcher Tarek AlSkaif awarded grant to develop a peer-to-peer energy trading platform guaranteeing a reliable decentralised energy grid.

William McMahon has been awarded a research grant from the Dr. Schürmann Foundation for his research on ancient coastal environments.

Press release SMARTCHAIN

On February the 15th professor Manon Kluijtmans held her inaugural lecture because of the new chair.