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On 2 October Prof. Detlef van Vuuren was awarded the 2024 Spinoza Prize at a ceremony in The Hague hosted by the Dutch Research Council NWO.

Thomas Dohmen, co-initiator and director of the AI Labs, will leave Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ as of 1 October.

Dong Nguyen receives an ERC Starting Grant and will research how data diversity affects the quality and behavior of language models.

Monique de Jager (Project Aanwaaiers) and Susanne Knittel (Ecocide Mock Trial) receive the Public Engagement Seed Fund to organize a public activity.

The ICAFR will take place in Kristiansand, Norway from 2-4 June 2025. The deadline for submission is 15 February 2025.

How can brands design their chatbot effectively? In Conversational AI, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and others offer practical guidance.

In education, course evaluation is a valuable tool for understanding student experiences and improving teaching. But what if there were new, more creative ways to collect this feedback?

What goes on in a horse's head? A better understanding of horses' emotions allows us to improve their well-being.

In conversation at Aeres MBO over our relationship with animals

Researcher and poultry vet commit to animal welfare using artificial intelligence (AI).

A vaccine against the bluetongue virus. "The first question was: do we start with sheep or cows? Animal welfare was given priority over economic interests: Sheep first."

Master students in veterinary medicine Jeroen Imholz and Koen Riep investigate the welfare of chickens at Herenboeren.

Back in the spring, the previous government decided to invest 124.5 million euros in a new Centre for Animal-free Biomedical Translation (CPBT) in Utrecht.

Animal welfare must be considered at all stages of a broiler chicken’s life, even during slaughter

Professor Bas Rodenburg of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and Kate Hartcher, Director of Science at Global Food Partners in Singapore, have jointly launched a project to train poultry farmers in China to become the new generation with cage-free housing systems for chickens.

Today, eighteen officers will be taught there by Yteke Elte from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine about animal health, animal welfare and the collaboration with vets.

Arend Schot died on 11 April 2024. He worked at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for 47 years and was well known for his kindness, empathy and honesty.

Master's student Femke Castellino is taking the clinical ethology course, in which she spends five weeks studying animal behaviour. She talks to Yvonne van Zeeland, vet and lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

The Animales Foundation supports our faculty in a wide range of animal welfare research and projects.

Student Olivier Weber chose the 'Animal Welfare Management' track in his master's. He researched the risks and areas of improvement for the welfare of beagles used in veterinary education.

Paul ’t Hart would like to set up a national data infrastructure for the quality of government and an empowerment programme for young first-generation academics.

Professor Susan te Pas has been reappointed by the Executive Board as Dean of ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ College Utrecht (UCU), effective 1 October 2024. Te Pas has served as Dean at UCU since 2021.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, UMC Utrecht and pharmaceutical company Roche Nederland in Woerden have agreed on a collaboration in education, research and healthcare.

Matthijs  Duursma's '23 academic journey seamlessly blends the technical rigour of aerospace engineering with the philosophical inquiry into the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Image-based treatment is a method that allows patients to be treated in a more targeted and less invasive way.