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They are back..! Fresh fruit en veg from Groentetas. Groentetas is a non-profit organization by sustainable-thinking and vegetable-loving students that was founded in 1994.

Certain genes seem to influence the growth or shrinkage of brain regions. So writes Professor of Neuroscience Hilleke Hulshoff Pol in Nature Neuroscience.

Joost de Graaf (ITP) helped Stefania Ketzetzi and her fellow experimental researchers in the group of Daniela Kraft at Leiden ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, show in Nature Communications that artificial microswimmers can cooperate just like their biological counterparts. Read here how they did this: https://edu.nl/6p6c8

Social-psychology researcher Reine van der Wal investigates how people maintain social relationships in times of conflict and stress.

Collaboration with other sectors such as agriculture and spatial planning must be strengthened in order to achieve the objectives of the Water Framework Directive.

Citizens can be stimulated to act more positively toward public sector workers, write Gabriela Szydlowski and her colleagues after an experiment in Canada.

Even the High North can’t escape the global threat of plastic pollution. This alarming picture emerges from inventory of dozens of studies into microscopically small plastic particles in the Arctic region

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities join forces in the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. As part of this collaboration, the Utrecht Data School (UDS) has become part of the CDH under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities.

The goal of the Paris climate agreement will become out of sight unless countries collectively show more ambition and take immediate action. That is the opinion of the five Dutch climate experts who contributed to the IPCC report.

With her mathematical research on aspects of graph theory, Carla Groenland makes algorithms in digital networks simpler and more efficient.

On March 22, we celebrated the festive opening of the AI Labs at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. We welcomed more than 300 guests, including researchers, representatives from public and private sectors and more.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� is joining forces with four facility partners: Asito (custodial services), Eurest (catering), Maas (coffee machines) and Sight Landscaping to create unique jobs for people with an occupational disability and/or psychological vulnerability.

In his inaugural lecture on 7 April, developmental biologist Mike Boxem will discuss his work on polarised cell division. Boxem's insights support cancer research.

Wolfgang Seibel has been appointed visiting professor at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Governance (USG).

rofessor Dr. Henk Kummeling has been reappointed by the Supervisory Board as Rector Magnificus of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� for a term of four years as of 1 June 2022.

The HUB-In atlas shows the finance and business models, governance structure and innovations in sustainability of more than 65 European initiatives.

The newest member of Team Migration and Societal Change, Jonathan Bening, briefly introduces himself.

The event sought to address the promises and dangers of influencing user behaviour online, and to reflect on necessary regulation in addressing new challenges

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Stichting Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht, Movares and T-mobile work together in a large scale long-term experiment.

Fake news. How adept are students at discerning fake news from actual news? And which are they more likely to trust: the contents or the messenger? Education specialist Eva Janssen provides answers to these questions with her research.

The Utrecht Young Academy (UYA) celebrates its five-year anniversary. To celebrate this, the UYA has made two videos.

On 29 March, the Future Learning Spaces open day took place, organized by the SIG Learning Spaces of SURF and the project Future Learning Spaces of UU.

Spot the differences: 'The ophthalmoscope'. 200 years Veterinary medicine.

Fietje van Bochove and Els Dikker; former student, current student

'That's a human being in your office, not a condition.' Doctors and veterinarians in dialogue with patients