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On 13-15 December 2021, the online workshop ‘Protecting deep seabed ecosystems under the future Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of BBNJ and by the ISA – Perspectives of Government, Civil Society, Stakeholders, and Law and Science’ was convened.

Utrecht researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that takes an important step towards designing new materials more efficiently. Based on the desired characteristics of a material, the AI system determines which building blocks are needed to make such a material.

Would you like to practice using a hybrid space and hear more about the possibilities? In Block 3, there are again drop-in sessions organized!

Gönül Dilaver was appointed the new Programme Director of the interfaculty Bachelor’s programme Biomedical Sciences of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has awarded the so-called Teacher Awards since 1994, to encourage academic teachers to continuously improve their teaching and to show them appreciation.

Sociologists also asked about the application procedure: one fourth of the parents found applying for childcare benefit complicated.

Alternatieven voor dierproeven voor Utrechtse studenten: met hologrammen de anatomie van een rat verkennen, met een plastic varken oefenen met bloedafname, en meer.

This winter, physics researcher Ingmar Swart and his team installed a very special microscope in the Bloembergen building at Utrecht Science Park.

De Turken gebruikten de Akropolis in de 15de eeuw waarschijnlijk helemaal niet als harem, ontdekte onderzoeker Janric van Rookhuijzen.

Call to governments, the United Nations and other actors to stop development and potential use of planetary-scale solar geoengineering technologies.

Chemistry researchers have uncovered the mechanism behind cobalt oxide as an active component for COâ‚‚ conversion.

Prof. Julia Jones from Bangor ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ in Wales has been appointed as the new holder of the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation.

Sociologists use computer simulations to show how vaccination campaigns can be twice as effective.

New book by Professor of Modern Dutch Literature Geert Buelens about the environmental crisis over the years.

Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, PhD candidate in the History and Art History department, contributed as a lab technician to the extraction of DNA from human skeletal remains.

Large volumes of fresh groundwater below the seafloor may be used as a temporary source of water in water stressed coastal regions.

That is the outcome of the largest study to date into the relationship between mobile phone use and the risk of brain tumours in young people.

UYA member Prof. Dr. Erik van Sebille joined the NPO Radio 1 programme Spraakmakers on 5 January, to discuss his scientific highlight of 2021 and his expectations for 2022.

Do you have an applied data science project and could you use the help of some master’s students?

The Bonvin lab at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ in collaboration with Li Xue’s group in Nijmegen and the Netherland eScience Center recently published DeepRank, a deep learning (DL) framework for data mining 3D protein-protein structures, in Nature Communications and GitHub. 

On 17 January, Berrie van der Molen will defend his dissertation ‘Talking about XTC: Drug discourse in post-war Dutch newspaper and radio debates’.

Researchers from Utrecht and Wageningen used models to predict the Mekong Delta will likely sink very fast compared to sea level, and propose strategies.

Last year the focus area Applied Data Science organized workshops for data scientists working in the UMCU to tackle subjects which many of the data scientists in the UMC Utrecht encounter during their work and consist of both a theoretical and hands-on part.

Three researchers at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros. The grant is awarded by the European Research Council.

The lecture notes of Jan Ackersdijck on Hegel's lectures have been transcribed and published by professor Yoshihiro Niji.