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The biodiversity footprint enables UU to investigate the impact of its activities on nature and biodiversity, both locally and globally.

From 1 November 2025, Jarno Hoekman will be appointed Professor of Science Studies for Sustainability.

As of 1 November 2025, Simona Negro will be appointed professor of Circular Societies, with a focus on the transition from a linear to a circular society.

The central challenge addressed by this chair is how we can achieve sustainable land use and management in the face of intensifying and often competing demands.

Would you like to gain more experience with Brightspace? Then play the Illuminate escape room. You can now also play this game in the city centre.

You can no longer publish open access for free at Taylor & Francis. Read here what you can do.

From campus life to the Amazon rainforest, current student Hanna Steinkamp shares her experience studying, exploring, and finding her rhythm on exchange in Peru

In Global Environmental Change, an international team of researchers led by Frances Dunn from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� introduces a new conceptual model for climate adaptation.

Jasper Sluijs, Toon Meelen and Tessa Dool advised the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure, that now urges the government to serve more public interests as a shareholder.

Get to know Generative AI and how to use it responsibly.

Celtic scholar Maartje Draak received a postcard from author J.R.R. Tolkien. An interesting article has been published about this postcard and the famous Hobbit dinner.

Can organoids help us better understand and treat kidney disease? This is the question Fjodor Yousef Yengej addressed during his PhD research.

For Vetscience, Professor of Animal Behaviour Saskia Arndt had the opportunity to ask three questions to one of her great role models: Jane Goodall. This interview took place in June 2025, a few months before she passed away on 1 October 2025 at the age of 91.

Literary scholar and cultural historian Dirk van Miert has been appointed Professor by Special Appointment in the History of Knowledge from a Digital Perspective at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

As of 15 October 2025, Kees van den Bos has been appointed professor at the new chair ‘Organisational Development and Leadership for Societal Transitions’.

Overview: weekend of science at Utrecht Science Park with Rashmi Sasidharen and Harrison Awuh ( Sunday 5 October2025)

Lonneke Roelofs studied a phenomenon that we do not know here on Earth and that had never been observed by anyone before.

By comparing the positions of the fifteen largest political parties, ocean scientists aim to show voters what each party plans for our seas and the ocean.

Researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) played an important role in the case study of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Subpolar Gyre, ocean systems that strongly influence how heat is distributed across the planet.

You can no longer publish open access for free at LWW. Read here what you can do.

The new Faculty of Veterinary Medicine building is being built according to circular principles. On the site where the Martinus G. de Bruin Building (MGB) now stands, a new faculty building will rise over the coming years, reusing the MGB as a source of construction materials.

A cap on the influx of international students costs the Netherlands billions annually and puts pressure on the labor market, economy, and business climate.

On June 12th, 2025, the Department of Education and Pedagogy and UGlobe, working within the DoY community, Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS), hosted a conference to strengthen ties between Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) and partners from the Global South.

The immune system is far from passive: “It actively shapes whether implants succeed", says Nada Rahmani, who recently earned her PhD.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� recently celebrated the launch of a special issue on International Community-Engaged Learning (ICEL).